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xCAM Cycle Accurate Models

Automatically Generate 100% Cycle Accurate Models of ARC® IP

ARC® xCAM products work with the ARChitect® Processor Configurator to automatically provide 100% cycle accurate models that reflect SoC designers' specific hardware configurations of ARC IP. These models allow design verification and provide detailed performance analysis of software before finalizing the hardware design. An underlying generator engine automatically creates the xCAM Cycle Accurate Model by translating the original Verilog RTL into 100% cycle accurate C++ or SystemC models. With ARC xCAM, multiple models are generated to compare alternative approaches against specific code early in the design process, assisting in choosing an optimal configuration. The level of accuracy even allows

Benefits

Reduce Time to Market

• Save tens of man-months of manual SystemC model development work
• Automatically generate 100% cycle accurate models within minutes of finishing a configuration
• Parallelize hardware and software development

Minimize Risk

• Quickly iterate through multiple system configurations to determine the best options for your requirements
• Increase the number of develop/debug/optimize cycles to ensure your product meets your requirements
• Prototype earlier in the development cycle to influence prospects and customers
• Provide full core visibility with high resolution to even analyze branch prediction and cache misses

Increase Developer Productivity

• Integrated with GNU tools and the MetaWare® Development Toolkit for optimium profiling and visibility
• SystemC models can connect to wider co-development tool flows to help productivity

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ARChitect® Integration

xCAM installs within the ARChitect IP Configurator to generate cycle-accurate models. Once installed, the modeling component can be added to the processor design within ARChitect® and options set. ARChitect then builds a 100% cycle-accurate model in minutes.

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xCAM Models Track Your Configurations Automatically

Upon completion of the ARC® IP configuration, ARChitect® uses xCAM to add a step into the build process generating a cycle-accurate model that reflects the user's configuration automatically.

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Debugger Integration

The xCAM model operates as a target within GDB and the MetaWare® Debugger. Using xCAM’s 100% cycle accurate models are as simple as using an ISS, an ARCangel prototyping system or actual hardware.

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• At any time during the run, access the following profiling information:

• View profiling data:

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