Integrating SystemC-AMS Power Modeling with a RISC-V ISS for Virtual Prototyping of Battery-operated Embedded Devices
<|reference_start|>Integrating SystemC-AMS Power Modeling with a RISC-V ISS for Virtual Prototyping of Battery-operated Embedded Devices: RISC-V cores have gained a lot of popularity over the last few years. However, being quite a recent and novel technology, there is still a gap in the availability of comprehensive simulation frameworks for RISC-V that cover both the functional and extra-functional aspects. This gap hinders progress in the field, as fast yet accurate system-level simulation is crucial for Design Space Exploration (DSE).   This work presents an open-source framework designed to tackle this challenge, integrating functional RISC-V simulation (achieved with GVSoC) with SystemC-AMS (used to model extra-functional aspects, in detail power storage and distribution). The combination of GVSoC and SystemC-AMS in a single simulation framework allows to perform a DSE that is dependent on the mutual impact between functional and extra-functional aspects. In our experiments, we validate the framework's effectiveness by creating a virtual prototype of a compact, battery-powered embedded system.<|reference_end|>
@article{hamdi2024integrating,
    title={Integrating SystemC-AMS Power Modeling with a RISC-V ISS for Virtual
  Prototyping of Battery-operated Embedded Devices},
    author={Mohamed Amine Hamdi, Giovanni Pollo, Matteo Risso, Germain Haugou,
  Alessio Burrello, Enrico Macii, Massimo Poncino, Sara Vinco and Daniele
  Jahier Pagliari},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.01861},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2404.01861},
    primaryClass={eess.SY cs.AR cs.SY}
}