
doi: 10.1109/dasc.2014.85
In embedded system design, there is an increasing demand for modeling techniques that can provide both accurate measurements of delay and fast simulation speed. Modeling latency effects of a cache can greatly increase accuracy of the simulation and assist developers to optimize their software. Current solutions have not succeeded in balancing three important factors: speed, accuracy and usability. In this research, we created a cache simulation module inside a well-known instruction set simulator QEMU. Our implementation can simulate various cases of cache configuration and obtain every memory access. In full system simulation, speed is kept at around 73 MIPS on a personal host computer which is close to native execution of ARM Cortex-M3(125 MIPS at 100 MHz). Compared to the widely used cache simulation tool, Valgrind, our simulator is three time faster.
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