An efficient simulation environment for the design of networked Bluetooth devices

Abstract

To enable the validation of HW/SW-mixed Bluetooth device design in the context of PICONET, we present an efficient simulation environment. The environment enables two types of simulation: one is modular enough to include the simulation of other vendors Bluetooth devices and the other is optimized to achieve fast simulation in developing in-house Bluetooth devices. We present two techniques, grouped message concept and fix-modify-restart scenario, to reduce the simulation efforts in our simulation environment. We use the simulation environment in the mixed HW/SW design of single-chip Bluetooth device. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the presented techniques in reducing the simulation efforts.