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====== Emulation ====== | ====== Emulation ====== | ||
- | Emulation, or specifically hardware emulation attempts to imitate the behavior of a device or platform to verify and validate firmware and/or software. Hardware emulation is typically a part of the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workflow. | + | Emulation, or specifically hardware emulation attempts to imitate the behavior of a device or platform to verify and validate firmware and/or software. Hardware emulation is typically a part of the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workflow. It is more accurate than simulation and works well for very complicated designs (such as those found in VLSI). |
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+ | For embedded systems, emulators are often used in ICE, or in-circuit emulation. | ||
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+ | ===== Weatherbox Firmware Emulator ===== | ||
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+ | The SCEL Weatherbox firmware comes with a built in emulator that uses [[ https://github.com/buserror/simavr | simavr]] as the core emulation model. Included is also a thin layer over the simavr model which uses the arduino bootloader to allow the emulation model to self program itself. | ||
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+ | {{ :weatherbox:emulation:emulator_block_diagram.png?200 |}} | ||
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+ | Documentation on how to run the emulator can be found [[https://github.com/scel-hawaii/weatherbox-firmware/blob/master/emu/README.md | here]]. | ||
+ | ===== Further Reading ===== | ||
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+ | - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_emulation | ||
+ | - http://electronicdesign.com/eda/11-myths-about-hardware-emulation | ||
+ | - http://electronicdesign.com/test-measurement/hardware-emulation-weapon-mass-verification |