Abstract
This chapter presents the SimSoC virtual prototyping framework, a full system simulation framework, based on SystemC and Transaction Level Modeling. SimSoC takes as input a binary executable file, which can be a full operating system, and simulates the behavior of the target hardware on the host system. It is using internally dynamic binary translation from target code to host code to simulate the application software. A potential issue with simulators is that they might not accurately simulate the real hardware. We aimed at filling this gap by proving that the ARM instruction set simulator coded in C is a high fidelity implementation of the ARM architecture, using the Coq theorem prover, and starting from a formal architectural model in Coq. The first part of the chapter presents the general architecture and features of SimSoC. The second part describes the proof of the ARM simulator.
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