June 10, 2010 -- An important use case for modeling of hardware IPs is to use the models to create Virtual Platforms. In a Virtual Platform, models of different IPs are stitched together, to be used to simulate the functionality of entire SOC (rather than mere components of a larger system). Different IPs have varied interface requirements, and connecting software models together can become a time consuming and error prone task, especially if the individual models use non-standard interfaces. The OCP-IP modeling kit provides a comprehensive resource that standardizes the way all IP that uses the OCP-IP bus interconnect is modeled greatly simplifying the difficulty in building virtual platforms.

This article presents work that has used the OCP-IP modeling kit, and shows the benefits that the kit brings.

Puneet Arora, Ruchir Bhartiand and Mark Burton. (Arora and Bharti are with CircuitSutra, and Burton is with GreenSocs.)