指令集模拟器发展现状评述

Instruction-set simulators (ISS) have become essential tools for embedded system research and development, it can help researchers to find the best possible architecture for the given set of applications, and designers can develop the software on the sufficiently fast ISS concurrently with the development of the hardware. This paper surveys and analyzes the evolution of the ISS during last decade, we categorize and compare existing techniques, the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches, including speed, flexibility, retargetbility and easy-of-maintenance are considered. In a concluding section, we discuss our future work including the software architecture of ISS, software reuse.