Full support for Altera's NIOS II CPU

Introduction

The Univers ISS (Instruction Set Simulator) model of the NIOS II processor includes:

Full instruction set of the e, s and f version of the NIOS II CPU
Full support for RTL custom instructions
Automatically ISS configuration by parsing the Altera .ptf project file
Basic timing model for instruction execution for e, s and f version
Branch prediction
Register and Memory windows
Functional bus models for:
    
Avalon Master Instruction bus
    
Avalon Master Data bus
    
Custom Instruction bus
Instruction cache
Data cache

Adveda’s development, simulation and debug tools offer the designer full visibility and full controllability of the design. Some of the unique features:

The accurate Static/Dynamic Profiler analyzes the application code without code changes. Real ISS timing data is used without using timers or other sampling techniques to present an accurate results. The results are available in ASCII tabular format or fully graphical, including individual stall reasons on procedure and instruction level basis.

The Profiler provides the correct data to make design decisions such as:
- Which part of the software is a candidate to be transferred from software to hardware to boost the application. In this way the profiler is a huge add on for Altera's C2H.
- How can I optimize this critical part of the code, which instructions contribute most to additional stall cycles.
 

 

When your design contains HDL code you can take advantage of the ultra fast HDL simulator. This simulator is factors faster than mainstraim digital simulators. The HDL simulator connects without any overhead to our Instruction Set Simulators.
Verilog and VHDL is supported.
 

Simultaneous simulation (and debugging) of more NIOS processors (or other processors, eg an ARM7TDMI) in multi-processor applications including all hardware-peripherals (Verilog or VHDL code) in one unified simulation environment.
 
If a location (register, memory cell or variable) with an unexpected value is found during debugging, Univers will identify the responsible source code, leaving no room for speculation and saving valuable time.
 
Unlimited breakpoints can be set at any place in the source code, assembly code, registers or memory locations without affecting the simulation speed and will stop all processors at exactly the same time. Breakpoints can individually be enabled or disabled.

More info

 

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For evaluation purposes a full evaluation version of the Univers tools is available.

 


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