Open Virtual Platforms Simulator Models for MIPS Family Cores
The Open Virtual Platforms (OVP) initiative (www.OVPworld.org) has high speed models available for most of the MIPS® family of 32-bit processor cores, including model for the most recently introduced M14K and 1074K product families. These models work with the OVP simulator, OVPsim, where they have shown exceptionally fast performance of hundreds of millions of instructions per second. Early simulation of software with OVP technology provides benefits of both increased productivity and increased quality.
All OVP processor models are instruction accurate, and very fast, focused on enabling embedded software developers, especially those building hardware-dependent software such as firmware and bare metal applications, the tools they need for a more robust development environment. Virtual platforms utilizing these OVP processor models can be created with the OVP peripherals and platform modeling technology, or the processor models can be integrated into SystemC/TLM-2.0 based virtual platforms using the TLM-2.0 interface available with all OVP processor models. The OVP MIPS models work with the leading SystemC/TLM2.0 simulators.
OVP includes the OVPsim simulator, models and APIs for developing new models. OVPsim executes software running on platforms, including multicore platforms, at hundreds of millions of instructions per second, providing the speed that software developers require for simulation of embedded systems. All OVP processor models include a SystemC/TLM-2.0 interface for easy integration in those virtual platform environments. OVP APIs enable the embedded software community to develop models of processors, behavioral components and peripherals, and to connect these together into virtual platforms that run the final target system software binaries unchanged.
The MIPS core models are available for free download from the OVPworld.org website....
For information about OVP modelsm simulators and downloads for MIPS cores, including the newest M14K and 1074K families, visit this link:
