Introduction

This document is the TEMU (Terma Emulator) Software Users Manual. It describes the fundamental concepts and general usage of the TEMU libraries and the command line interface.

TEMU is a microprocessor emulator that supports the SPARCv8 processors ERC32, LEON2, LEON3 and LEON4. The emulator can emulate multi-core processors.

TEMU is a full system emulator, meaning that it is capable of emulating (multi-core) microprocessors, memory and peripherals. Different devices are written as plugins, meaning that the system supports both pluggable CPU, memory and device modules. In-fact, systems are constructed by connecting different modules together, meaning that there is no hard-wiring to any special memory layout or on-chip devices.

To give an example, to construct a LEON2 processor, one would first create and then connect the CPU core, ROM, RAM and LEON2 SoC components.

Layers of the Terma Emulator
Figure 1. Layers of the Terma Emulator

There are two user interfaces for TEMU, the Command Line Interface (CLI) and the libraries (API). The CLI offers an interactive tool for running the emulator by itself and with its own models, while the API allows the user to integrate the emulator with other simulators.