Distributed cosimulation

• Software bus transfers data between simulators using a procedure calls based on some protocol.

• Implementation of System Bus is based on system facilities (Unix IPC or socket). It is only a component of the simulation tool.

• Allows concurrency between simulators.

VHDL

Simulator

VEC Interface to

Software Bus

C program

Interface to

software Bus

Cosimulation (Software) Bus

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