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Re: Work on the SIS ERC32 Emulator
- From: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>
- To: Jose E. Marchesi <jemarch at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:32:14 +0200
- Subject: Re: Work on the SIS ERC32 Emulator
- References: <87k4erg3ip.fsf@gnu.org>
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.