Arm® Virtual Hardware (AVH) is an evolution of Arm’s modelling technology delivering models of Arm-based processors, systems, third party hardware for application developers and SoC designers to build and test software before silicon and hardware availability. It is an accurate representation of a physical System on Chip and runs as a simple application in a Linux environment for easy scalability in the cloud. Powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), developers can launch Amazon Machine Image (AMI) running as a virtual server in the cloud. The Arm Virtual Hardware is configured with the Arm® Corstone™-300 and Corstone™-310 MPS3 based Fixed Virtual Platform (FVP), compiler and other tools.
To take advantage of Arm Virtual Hardware, you would need to have an AWS account and follow the steps below:
To access the Arm Virtual Hardware AWS instance via ssh, accept the prompt to generate a .pem key while creating the instance or add it later. You can then access the AWS instance over ssh: $ ssh -i <mykey.pem> ubuntu@<ec2-ip-address>. It may be necessary to change the permissions for mykey.pem with $ chmod 400 mykey.pem.
Note that you can register to receive free AWS credits to use Arm Virtual Hardware from here.
You can find more information about Arm Virtual Hardware here.
Once you have access to the AWS instance, we recommend starting from the quick start guide in order to get familiar with the ml-embedded-evaluation-kit. Note that on the AWS instance, the FVPs are available under:
/opt/VHT/VHT_Corstone_SSE-300_Ethos-U55/opt/VHT/VHT_Corstone_SSE-300_Ethos-U65/opt/VHT/VHT_Corstone_SSE-310In order to view the FVP window when launching on the AWS instance a VNC is required. See relevant section here. Alternatively, the FVPs can be given certain command line arguments to make them execute without the front-end. See Running the FVP without the UI.