Speaker:

Frédéric Pétrot, TIMA Lab, Grenoble University, France

Title:

Using Hardware Assisted Virtualization for Native Simulation of MPSoC

Abstract:

Existing native simulation approaches are such that the simulated software shares the memory space of the modeled hardware modules and the host operating system, making impractical the support of legacy code running on the target platform. To overcome this issue, we exploit the hardware assisted virtualization technology now available on most general purpose processors to transparently translate addresses from target to host.

Bio:

Frédéric Pétrot received the DEA (master) and PhD degree in Computer Science from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Paris, France, in respectively 1990 and 1994. From 1995 to 2004, he was Assistant Professor in Computer Science in the same university, and was one of the main contributors of the Alliance VLSI CAD System and the Disydent ESL environment. F. Pétrot joined the TIMA laboratory in September 2004, and holds a professor position at the "Institut Polytechique de Grenoble", France, where, since 2007, he heads the System Level Synthesis group. His main research interest is in system level design of integrated circuits and systems, and include computer aided design of digital systems, architecture and software for homogeneous and heterogeneous multiprocessor systems on chip.