A proposed synthesis method for Application-Specific Instruction Set Processors

Horváth, Péter; Hosszú, Gábor; Kovács, Ferenc

doi:10.1016/j.mejo.2015.01.001

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“…These somewhat conflicting requirements are well-known by the existing approaches but they are usually handled in a mutually exclusive manner; HLS (High Level Synthesis) tools are used when the development time is the primary objective and detailed hand-crafted RTL (Register-Transfer Level) modelling is applied in case of highly timing-sensitive and/or power-critical designs. To find a common ground for the contradictory needs, a novel abstraction called ARTL (Algorithmic RTL) has been introduced in the journal papers [31,32,33]. ARTL unites the methods which are identical to traditional RTL from the viewpoint of the structural elements constituting the formal model and slightly increase the abstraction when it comes to expressing the functionality.…”

Section: Optimized Rtl Design By Means Of Algorithmic Formal Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

BME VIK Annual Research Report on Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 2015

Vajk¹,

Harsányi

Poppe

et al. 2016

Period. Polytech. Elec. Eng. Comp. Sci.

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PrefaceThroughout László Vajta, Dean of BME VIK János Levendovszky, Deputy Dean of BME VIK Department of Automation and Applied InformaticsDepartment of Automation and Applied Informatics (AUT) is one of the largest and dynamically developing departments at BME with diverse scope competences such as control theory, embedded systems, software modelling, applied software development, Internet of Things, power electronics, mechatronics, and many others. The department's main activities are education, research and development. Training versatile electrical and software engineers with solid practical knowledge is our top priority. Our profile also includes developing high quality software and hardware solutions for industry partners. All of our activities are backed by strong research background.In 2015, the department has organized the 21 st European Wireless (EW) Conference. The EW 2015 conference hosted more than 140 participants from 30 different countries. The 2015 edition of EW was aimed at addressing a key theme on "5G and beyond."The next sections summarize the key research results of the department in year 2015. IoT and Smart CityThe Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming the surrounding physical objects into an ecosystem of information that enriches our everyday life. The IoT represents the convergence of advances in miniaturization, wireless connectivity, and increased data storage, and is driven by various sensors. Application and service development methods and frameworks are required to support the realization of solutions covering data collection, transmission, data processing, analysis, reporting, and advanced querying. Our SensorHUB framework URBMOBI is a mobile environmental sensor that (i) provides temporally and spatially distributed environmental data, (ii) fulfills the need for monitoring at various places without the costs for a large number of fixed measurement stations, (iii) integrates small and precise sensors in a system that can be operated on buses, trams, or other vehicles, (iv) concentrates on urban heat and thermal comfort, and (v) aims at providing climate services and integration with real-time climate models.utilizes the state-of-the-art open source technologies and provides a unified tool chain for IoT related application and ser-URBMOBI project has been worked out between 2013 and 2015 by the following consortium: RWTH Aachen University (Germany), Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO (Netherlands), ARIA Technologies (France), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary), and Meteorological and Environmental Earth Observation (Italy).The SOLSUN (Sustainable Outdoor Lighting & Sensory Urban Networks) project is about to demonstrate how intelligent city infrastructure can be created in a cost-effective and sustainable way by reusing existing street lighting as the communications backbone. We apply different technologies and methods to reduce energy consumption at the same time as turning streetlights into nodes on a scalable network that is al...

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Section: Optimized Rtl Design By Means Of Algorithmic Formal Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

BME VIK Annual Research Report on Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 2015

Vajk¹,

Harsányi

Poppe

et al. 2016

Period. Polytech. Elec. Eng. Comp. Sci.

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“…Earlier stages of this work are reported in [29] and [30]. The concept of ARTL abstraction has been reconsidered ever since and an exact definition has been created which is presented in Section 3.…”

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Semi-Automatic RTL Methods for System-on-Chip IP Delivery in the Cyber-Physical System Era

Horváth

Hosszú

Kovács

2016

Period. Polytech. Elec. Eng. Comp. Sci.

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With the dawn of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) the relevance of System-on-Chips equipped with run-time configurable, application-specific macrocells increases as numerous tasks has to be taken over from the microprocessors in order to Keywords ARTL, AMDL, CPS, SoC, microarchitecture, RTL design IntroductionIn the recent decade the most spectacular change in the field of digital system design has been the rise of the design entry's abstraction level and the usage of automated methods in the early stages of the design process. This is caused by the ever-increasing time-to-market and time-on-market pressure which has become one of the most important design objectives nowadays. With the dawn of the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) integrating physical processes and computation systems directly influencing each other via feedback loops, a huge amount of possible applications emerged and, since the development platforms and tools are very efficient and widely known, the development time has become the key factor on the common market [1,2,3].Because of these characteristics of the backend application requirements, the central data processing hardware components of these systems [4, 5] mainly comprise pre-designed, optimized, and pre-verified macrocells and the focus of digital design shifted to the high level methods used for integrating these components into functionally complete, intelligent systems [6][7][8][9].The foresaid demand for a fast development process in the application area implicitly places major demands upon the computation capacities of the underlying SoCs as well: The intelligence of the CPS applications is usually provided by the software environment running on an embedded microprocessor. These software applications tend to be more and more complex, therefore, the significance of the operating systembased runtime environments is also increasing, even in small designs. Similarly to the hardware development, the tool chains of the application software products are also based on the increasing abstraction (interpreted scripting languages, virtual machines etc.) requiring microprocessors with impressive computation capacities. Moreover, CPS applications are typically real-time systems necessitating predictable computation delays. This predictability is mainly handled by outsourcing the timing-critical tasks to application-specific, highly configurable Intellectual Property (IP) cores instead of performing them in software running on an Instruction-Set Processor (ISP) [10][11][12][13]. Since the overall characteristics of SoCs, such

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“…In [18] two distinct HDL implementation schemes for data processors were presented. These two model types both lend themselves to an automated RTL synthesis.…”

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confidence: 99%