ArchC Simulator Generators

ArchC has two tools for simulator generation. One of them, acsim, generates an interpreted simulator, where each target application instruction is decoded and executed. In contrast, accsim, uses the compiled simulation technique to create a faster simulator specialized to a given application.

The simulator generated by acsim uses SystemC as the simulation kernel, thus allowing the designer to quickly produce a running high-level SystemC Architecture description. On the other hand, the accsim compiled simulator is focused on simulation speed and does not require SystemC.

ACCSIM accepts the same behavioral models available to the interpreted simulator ACSIM.

For additional details on each tool please follow the links acsim and accsim.

ArchC Assembler Generator

The ArchC assembler generator tool is called acasm. To generate assemblers, acasm needs a set of adittional information in the architecture model files, as introduced in ArchC version 1.5.

To compile and generate the final executable assembler, the GNU Binutils package is needed. More information about the acasm tool can be found here or in the manual.