Foundation Model

ARMv8 Foundation Model

The ARMv8 Foundation Model is a virtual platform incorporating an AArch64 architecture simulation model along with essential peripherals for running a Linux operating system. Multicore is configurable out-of-the-box, along with 4GB memory of simulation memory, persistent storage, networking and basic instruction trace. Debug is via a GDB connection to a server running on the platform. The host platform support is 64-bit Linux.

Fixed Virtual Platforms (System Models)

There are a number of more advanced virtual platforms based on the ARM Versatile™ Express platform already available. These include ARMv8 architecture and ARM Cortex™-A15 plus Cortex-A7 big.LITTLE™ system. These feature-rich platforms integrate full blown non-intrusive debug support with the ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5™) toolchain and third party tools to enable more efficient software development. Additional features include multi-cluster support, as used for big.LITTLE processing, cache memory modeling, full HD LCD emulation and advanced trace control. The host platform support for 32-bit/64-bit is Windows and Linux.

Fast Models

Full platform customization to meet your individual SoC requirements is available with the Fast Models product. It provides the necessary models for constructing virtual platforms of ARM processor-based systems along with templates of popular configurations. Customization of model content and configuration of items such as memory map and interrupt map, and the ability to export the platform to SystemC/TLM environments are supported.

Offers Linux and Android images with support for virtual targets

ARM DS-5™ support bare-metal and Linux debug on virtual platforms

Full platform customization with ARM Fast Models

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