ISDL: An Instruction Set Description Language For Retargetability

Hadjiyiannis, George; Hanono, Silvina Zimi; Devadas, Srinivas

doi:10.1109/dac.1997.597161

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“…There are several competing architectural specification languages available today such as nML [9], ISDL [10], Maril [11], HMDES [12], LISA [1], PRMDL [13], RADL [14] and Expression [15]. We have done a detailed comparison of the capabilities of MAD with these forms of specification.…”

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A disciplined approach to the development of platform architectures

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Keutzer

Malik

et al. 2002

Microelectronics Journal

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Silicon capability has enabled the embedding of an entire system on a single silicon die. These devices are known as systems-on-achip (SOC).Currently, the design of these devices is undisciplined, expensive, and risky. One way of amortizing the cost and ameliorating this design risk is to make a single integrated circuit serve multiple applications, and the natural way of enabling this is through end-user programmability. The aim of the MESCAL project, which is the subject of this paper, is to introduce a disciplined approach to producing reusable architectural platforms that can be easily programmed to meet a variety of applications. (MESCAL stands for Modern Embedded Systems, Compilers, Architectures, and Languages.)

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Section: Mescal Architectural Description (Mad)mentioning

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A disciplined approach to the development of platform architectures

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Keutzer

Malik

et al. 2002

Microelectronics Journal

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“…Typically, there is a one-to-one correspondence between behavioural ADLs and the instruction set reference manual. In this Section, we briefly describe two behavioural ADLs: nML [11] and ISDL [12].…”

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“…An extensive body of recent work addresses ADL driven software toolkit generation and design space exploration of processor-based embedded systems, in both academia: ISDL [12], Valen-C [36], MIMOLA [8], LISA [30], nML [11], Sim-nML [37], EXPRESSION [24]; and industry: [23].…”

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Processor Description Languages

Mishra¹,

Dutt²

2008

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Embedded systems present a tremendous opportunity to customise designs by exploiting the application behaviour. Shrinking time-to-market, coupled with short product lifetimes, create a critical need for rapid exploration and evaluation of candidate architectures. Architecture description languages (ADL) enable exploration of programmable architectures for a given set of application programs under various design constraints such as area, power and performance. The ADL is used to specify programmable embedded systems, including processor, coprocessor and memory architectures. The ADL specification is used to generate a variety of software tools and models facilitating exploration and validation of candidate architectures. The paper surveys the existing ADLs in terms of (a) the inherent features of the languages and (b) the methodologies they support to enable simulation, compilation, synthesis, test generation and validation of programmable embedded systems. It concludes with a discussion of the relative merits and demerits of the existing ADLs and expected features of future ADLs.

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“…ASIPs are tailored to particular applications, thereby combining performance and power efficiency of a dedicated hardware solution with the flexibility of a programmable solution [3]. To identify the optimal architecture for a given application, design environments based on Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) are commonly used [4][5] [6] [7] [8]. They enable a fast development of the initial architecture model and a quick incorporation of specification changes.…”

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A framework for automated and optimized ASIP implementation supporting multiple hardware description languages

Schliebusch¹,

Chattopadhyay²,

Kammler³

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Proceedings of the ASP-DAC 2005. Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, 2005.

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Abstract-Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) are widely used to perform design space exploration for Application Specific Instruction Set Processors (ASIPs). While the design space exploration is well supported by numerous tools providing high flexibility and quality, the methodology of automated implementation is limited to simple transformations. Assuming fixed architectural templates, information given in the ADL is directly mapped to a hardware description on Register Transfer Level (RTL). Gate-Level synthesis tools are not able to perform potential optimizations, as the computational complexity grows exponential with the size of the architecture. Information such as exclusiveness, parallelism or boolean relations are spread over multiple modules and therefore hard to determine. In this paper, we present an ASIP synthesis approach from architecture description languages, based on an Intermediate Representation (IR). The IR is the key technology to provide new languageindependent high-level optimizations and to realize different hardware description language backends. The feasibility of our approach is proven in a case-study.

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ISDL: An Instruction Set Description Language For Retargetability

Cited by 141 publications

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A disciplined approach to the development of platform architectures

A disciplined approach to the development of platform architectures

Processor Description Languages

A framework for automated and optimized ASIP implementation supporting multiple hardware description languages

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