Carbon Design Systems

for SOC Designer

for CoWare® Platform Architect

for OSCI SystemC™

for MIPS™ MIPSsim™

for Synopsys® Virtio

for Model Validation

for Model Distribution

for MIPS^™ MIPSsim^™

Overview

Carbon Model Studio generates SystemC models which can be integrated with the MIPSsim environment from MIPS Technologies. The Carbon/MIPSsim combination enables designers to rapidly develop and assemble complete virtual platforms which can be used to explore architectural tradeoffs and perform pre-silicon software development.

Rapid Development of Components

With Carbon Model Studio and MIPSsim, you can concurrently develop your hardware and software well before silicon is available. Carbon models communicate with the MIPSsim ISS allowing debug access to both the hardware and software. Because Carbon Models are cycle-accurate to the RTL, complex hardware / software interaction bugs can be found and fixed before tapeout.

Accelerated Software Debug and Profiling

SystemC Components generated by Carbon Model Studio enable your MIPSsim based platforms to be assembled rapidly and accurately. Software engineers have complete visibility into all of the Carbon Model’s software visible registers and memories. In addition, all Carbon Models have the capability to dump waveforms. This enables the software and hardware engineer to work together to debug complex system problems or any hardware problems which are uncovered by running software.

For more information about MIPS MIPSsim, visit: www.mips.com

Carbon Model Studio