A Virtual Socket Framework for Rapid Emulation of Video and Multimedia Designs

Traditional design and test of complex multimedia systems involves a large number of test vectors and is a difficult and time-consuming task. The simulation times are prohibitively long on current desktop computers. Driving actual design scenarios and timing burst behavior which produce real-time ef...

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Published in2005 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo pp. 872 - 875
Main Authors Schumacher, P., Mattavelli, M., Chirila-Rus, A., Turney, R.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2005
Subjects
Computational modeling
Computer simulation
Emulation
Field programmable gate arrays
Hardware
Multimedia systems
Sockets
System testing
Timing
Vehicles
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Summary:Traditional design and test of complex multimedia systems involves a large number of test vectors and is a difficult and time-consuming task. The simulation times are prohibitively long on current desktop computers. Driving actual design scenarios and timing burst behavior which produce real-time effects is difficult to do with current simulation environments. This paper describes a rapid emulation framework for accessing multiple hardware IP blocks on an FPGA. This solution involves an abstraction of the FPGA platform by having a virtual socket layer that resides between the design and the test vehicles. A rapid prototyping platform is thus created, and its use with complex video and multimedia systems is described
ISBN:9780780393318
0780393317
ISSN:1945-7871
1945-788X
DOI:10.1109/ICME.2005.1521562