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PROTOFLEX: Co-Simulation for Component-wise FPGA Emulator Development

Tuesday January 31, 2006
Hamerschlag Hall D-210
4:00 pm

This is a practice talk for our paper in the Workshop for Architecture Research using FPGA Platforms at the 12th Annual International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture.



Eric Chung
Carnegie Mellon University

Surging interest in developing large-scale, FPGA-based full-system multiprocessor emulators faces the challenge of verifying and composing multiple, potentially untrustworthy RTL components. In this talk I describe PROTOFLEX, a hardware/software co-simulation methodology to facilitate systematic development of RTL components. I then describe experiences using the PROTOFLEX methodology to develop the RTL model of a microprogrammable protocol engine for directory-based cache-coherence.


Eric S. Chung is a second-year PhD student advised by Professor James C. Hoe in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his B.S. in EECS from the University of California Berkeley. His research interests are designing and prototyping scalable, reliable server architectures and transactional memory.

 

Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringCarnegie Mellon UniversitySchool of Computer Science