QorIQ® Arm® and Power Architecture® Functional Simulation
NXP® creates software simulators known as virtual platforms for QorIQ®, QorIQ Qonverge® and LS series processors that are designed for high-performance software development and advanced use cases.
These virtual platforms are NOT replacements for boards and chips but instead are designed for advanced use cases in which the silicon is inappropriate. Upon special request, these simulators can be made available within specific terms and guidelines to help customers solve very advanced engineering questions.
- Representative use cases would be:
- Software migration
- Software fault tolerance
- Cosimulation
- Analyze critical timing parameters
- Custom probe points
- Software development
For more detail see the features list below.
Software Details
Diagram
Features
- Modular C++ Design with Support for TLM2.0 Interoperability
- Functional simulator only, build for speed
- Accuracy added via TLM2 modeling style abstractions
- Support for co-simulation with SystemC models
- Quantum based simulator(s), threaded and ready for multicore
- Flexible I/O support via TLM and socket based interface
- Flexible integration points
- Rich peripheral library
- CPU library: e500mc, e5500, e6500, e200, StarCore®, Arm®v7 and Arm®v8
- Representative use cases would be:
- Software Migration: Create custom or hybrid SoC models to assist software migration
- Software Fault Tolerance: Utilize these simulators to inject errors to test software fault tolerance
- Co-simulation: Utilize these simulators with Verilog or VHDL models of custom logic prior to committing to expensive hardware realization
- Critical path performance analysis: easily add in timing information as necessary to check highly critical timing parameters
- Custom Probe Points: Use custom SoC internal probe points to produce custom trace or custom measurements and metrics
- Advanced Software Development: Software development where hardware platforms are scarce or expensive as well as pre-silicon simulation
Supported Devices
- B4860: QorIQ® B4860 Baseband Processor
- LS1043A: Layerscape® 1043A and 1023A Processors
- P3041: QorIQ® P3041 Quad-Core Communications Processors
- P4080: QorIQ® P4080/P4040/P4081 Multicore Communications Processors
- P5040: QorIQ® P5040/5021 64-bit Dual- and Quad-Core Communications Processors
- T1024: QorIQ® T1024/14 and T1023/13 Dual- and Single-Core Communications Processors
- T1042: QorIQ® T1042 and T1022 Multicore Communications Processors
- T2080: QorIQ® T2080 and T2081 Multicore Communications Processors
- T4240: QorIQ® T4240/T4160/T4080 Multicore Communications Processors
- P5020: QorIQ® P5020 and P5010 64-bit Dual- and Single-Core Communications Processors
- B4420: QorIQ® Qonverge B4420 Baseband Processor
System Requirements
- Mainstream 64-bit Linux® host