SW Annotation Techniques and RTOS Modelling for Native Simulation of Heterogeneous Embedded Systems

The growing complexity of electronic systems has resulted in the development of large multiprocessor architectures. Many advanced consumer products such as mobile phones, PDAs and media players are based on System on Chip (SoC) solutions. These solutions consist of a highly integrated chip and associated software. SoCs combine hardware IP cores (function specific cores and accelerators) with one or several programmable computing cores (CPUs, DSPs, ASIPs). On top of those HW resources large functionalities are supported.