TALON-DX Simulation Environment Implementation

The TALON-DX signal processing board is an expensive piece of equipment and it is likely that the number of prototype boards available during the bridging period and early construction will make the availability of TALON-DX boards a critical component in the development schedule.  Since the HPS on the TALON-DX runs Linux, it is possible to do the bulk of software development and testing using a generic Linux server rather than a TALON-DX board.

A key component required to make this an effective approach is IP Subsystem simulator able to simulate the behavior of firmware IP blocks (from a M&C point of view) on a standard Linux server.

The basis of the solution is to use a test version of the libip to direct register access commands to a simulator, which will use scripts to model IP block behavior to populate status registers and respond to changes in control registers.

This feature is to execute implementation of the simulation environment and contains the following tasks.

1. Implement the TALON-DX simulation environment as described in the document developed by SP-368.
2. Test and demonstrate that TALON-DX software works as intended. 
3. Write and review detailed design (either in document or source code, or both).