VCore-based design methodology [SoC design]

The reuse of high-level design intellectual properties is indispensable to reduce SoC ciesign time. It has been difficult for SoC designers to design and coinpare two or more SoC architectures in a given product design time. In this paper, we present a synthesis methodology of SoC architectures using Wrtnal Cores (VCores) to perfonn architectural explorations in a short period. The proposed synthesis methodology generates an initial architecture, which consists of a CPU, buses, I/Os. etc.. and makes tradeoffs behveen lardware and software on mapped software VCores and hardware VCores models. The authors show the usefulness of the proposed method from the results of an architecture level design experiment.

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Synthesis for SoC architecture using VCores

Nishi¹,

Muraoka²,

Morizawa³

et al. 2003

Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Asia South Pacific Design Automation - ASPDAC

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In this paper, we propose a novel architecture synthesis method for SoC using VCores. VCores are reusable and configurable high-level descriptions. An initial SoC architecture, which consists of a CPU, buses, and peripherals, is generated based on an architecture template. The hardware and software tradeoff is possible on the architecture model after assignment of software VCores or hardware VCores. The assignment is based on the results of the architecture's performance estimation. We present a prototype of the synthesis for SoC architecture using VCores and an architecture level design experiment using this prototype.

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VCore-based design methodology [SoC design]

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