Simulator Selection & Configuration

From Texas Instruments Embedded Processors Wiki

Simulator Selection & Configuration

TI provide different flavor of simulators - CPU or Device Simulator & Cycle Accurate or Functional Simulator and it's important to select the appropriate simulator for development.

Type of Simulator

• CPU Cycle Accurate Simulator
  • Used for CPU centric application algorithm development & performance analysis.
• Device Functional Simulator
  • Used for device level application development
• Device Cycle Accurate Simulator
  • Used for device level application development & performance analysis.

e.g
for CPU Simulator - C64x+ CPU Cycle Accurate Simulator
for Device Simulator - C6745 Device Cycle Accurate Simulator or C6745 Device Functional Simulator

Selection & Configuration of Simulator

• Bring up CCSv4 & click on Target->New Target Configuration
• Specify the target configuration file name & use shared location or store it in the project folder.

• Target selection will appear. Select connection type as Texas Instruments Simulator & type the device you are interested in the device filter window (e.g. C64x or C6455 etc)

• Select the simulator on the available list & click on Target Configuration below the Advanced Setup

• Select the CPU & configure the necessary parameters.

• To configure the memory map & cache setting for CPU simulator check the link - C64x+ CPU Cycle Accurate Simulator
• To configure the CPU & Memory clock check the link - CPU & Memory Clock Configuration

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