BONE-V network-cycle-accurate (NCA) simulator is designed to explore the architectural tradeoffs and deliver the optimal network architecture for BONE-V processor. BONE-V is the codename for a vision processor, which is developed by KAIST Semiconductor System Laboratory (SSL) and it stands for Basic On-chip NEtwork for Vision application. The simulator is written in C/C++ and mainly based on SystemC. It consists of Loosely-timed core models and Approximately-timed Network-on-Chip (NoC) models.
This simulator requires additional libraries described below
You muse set the environment variable, SYSTEMC_ROOT so that the system
can find SystemC, TLM libraries properly. Alternatively, you can provide the
additional option, -DSYSTEMC_ROOT=/path/to/systemc with cmake command.
The recommended version is SystemC 2.3.1 or newer, and TLM 2.0.3 or newer
The environment variable, BOOST_ROOT is required to build BONE-V network
simulator. Alternatively, the -DBOOST_ROOT=/path/to/boost option can be
used with cmake command. The recommended version is 1.5.6 or newer.
The typical conventions look something like this:
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variable_names_in_snake_case : Variable, a mutable thing. All lower case, words separated by underscores.
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CONSTANTS_IN_ALL_CAPS : Constant, an immutable thing. All upper case, words separated by underscores.
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functionAndMethodNames : Functions and methods, immutable and callable things. Mixed camel case, first letter always lower case.
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StructAndClassNames : Structs and classes, immutable and instantiatable things. Mixed camel case, first letter always upper case.
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systemc_tlm_function : The SystemC TLM essential functions are all lowercase, with underscores between words.
Will be updated later
SystemC was developed to provide features that facilitate hardware modleing, particulary the parallelism of hardware, in C/C++, the mainstream programming lanuage.