[news.eclipse.dsdp.vpp] Re: Why VPP

[Mark Burton<mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

marc.harbonne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Marc Harbonne) wrote:
>Hi All,
>



Hi Marc, and thanks!

I am SO sorry for the delay in responding, but I guess my response is
predictable.
Yes - I totally agree :-)

I hope you will be able to support VPP :-)

Cheers

Mark.


>My name is Marc Harbonne and I work today for WindRiver System, in the 
>past I worked for ST Micro at Crolles site in France, since many years ST 
>uses Virtualization to provide to Software engineers a simulated platforms 
>(TLM and SystemC) enables them to develop and debug their software before 
>the hardware is ready.
>The VPP in general will allow us to run OS over simulated system and to 
>have one common environment based on Eclipse to develop hardware platform 
>and software.
>Today SOC are so complex, they integrate software/hardware (many CPUs) 
>that is becoming too complex to debug a such environment or to say "this 
>bug is software bug or an hardware bug) so the need to have the whole 
>system in one environment for development and debugging is becoming a NEED.
>
>I worked for many years in cooperation with ST through an outsourcing 
>company called Silicomp.
>We develop a tool that allow to visualize behavior of the VPP and other 
>information , this tool was very useful for developping of MP4 
>coding/encoding to see the image at different stages of the coding.
>But not only, it gives the possibility to test software by giving to the 
>VPP input, to see how the software react to errors or other unexpected 
>events. 
>
>Today, the tool like Simics or QEMU emulators, we achieved to run 
>simulation at the same speed like the harware platforms runs.
>
>This is why in few words,  the VPP is important for all of us (software 
>and hardware engineers)
>
>
>Marc
>
>



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