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Re: Work on the SIS ERC32 Emulator


On Apr 18, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:

> 
> Hello.
> 
> My employers decided to pay me to improve the 'sis' ERC32 emulator which
> is part of the gdb distribution (sim/erc32 in the redhat repo).  In
> principle they will be paying 4 hours per week.  The investment may be
> increased depending on the outcome of the activity.
> 
> The main goals of the activity are:
> 
> - To improve the performance of the emulator.  We will start
>  implementing the basic performance tricks: threaded code, caching of
>  condition codes, etc.
> 
> - To make the emulator flexible enough to simulate boards used in
>  current spacecrafts.
> 
> - Eventually, to advance 'sis' to emulate LEON2 and LEON3 as well as
>  ERC32.

Just a side note: if you are looking for performance, qemu is much faster than sis.

Tristan.


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