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What is SampaLib?

The Sampa library is a comprehensive C++ library and Lua  ESL toolset to simulate and analyze system on chip architectures through fast cycle accurate transactional level simulation. It includes:
The further releases shall bring more components, full scriptability and probably some graphical environment (for usecases and analysis) developped with QT and Qwt.

News

09/02/2012
Small refresh
Not much work done on the project lately, but wanted to compile it on ubunto 11.10 and found that compilers are less permissive and that post++ has some fixes, so I've made a new release that shall make the initial build easy
22/04/2010
Accelerating core model development?
Done some experiments with LuaJit 2.0 on a pure Lua initiator model, reached about 1250000 cycles/seconds. May think of integrating it in place of regular Lua using bitop instead of the hex patch, even if the bit span is limited.
04/09/2009
Lost user interface!
Being young father is quite taking a lot time if you want to enjoy it, add a hard disk crash, a relocation to another country, a new job and you end up with not much progress in open source activities. Still as soon as I find time (and cables of backup harddisk, I'll start again working on the GUI!
05/27/2008
Started work on user interface
Not much news lately, but I've starting working on a user interface for the analysis of the simulation traces. My newborn is happily taking much of my spare time, so it's difficult forecasting a release date... But I hope to have something to show before the end of year.

Documentation

Install

see here

Demo

see here

Library documentation

Doxygen user documentation (in progress)

White papers:

A Sampalib and SystemC comparison (pdf)

License

It is currently available under GPL v2. 

Releases

Where?

The releases can be found in sourceforge and in greensocs. The latest is also available here.

issues: 
All
Bugs
 submit bug
Support Requests
 submit support request
Features Requests
 submit feature request
SVN Repository: 

Requirements

They are sourcecode release, intended for linux environments. It is primary developped on ubuntu 64bits Feisty with gcc 4.1.2 on vmware.

Third part libraries included in package:

Third part libraries not included in package

Third part tools, used for documentation

Install

edit the configuration according to your needs. These are located in this file: include/sampa/core/config.h
setup one environment variable
-- assuming cd sampa
export LUA_PATH="`pwd`/scripts/?.lua"
building all, including third part libs with patches
scripts/build.sh
further compilations
make
make doc

A quick demo

source scripts/demo.sh
and
source scripts/sldemo.sh
same as previous demo, but with scripted top level

system architecture

channel trace comparison

Contact

mail list:sampalib@groups.greensocs.com
Thierry Grellier contact@sampalib.org or thierry@sampalib.org
Thierry Grellier is the original author of the library. He previously was working in Texas Instruments in OMAP architecture team, as a system engineer studying the system on chip performance. He is currently working at Skype in Tallinn.

I'll be happy having some feedback on the interest on using or embedding a library such as Sampa and welcome any requirements.