Hardware-software co-design of embedded systems: the POLIS approach
Hardware-software co-design of embedded systems: the POLIS approach
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IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
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This paper presents SW synthesis using Embedded System Environment (ESE), a tool set for design of multi-core embedded systems. We follow a design process that starts with an application model consisting of C processes communicating via abstract message passing channels. The application model is mapped to a platform net-list of SW and HW cores, buses and buffers. A high speed transaction level model (TLM) is generated to validate abstract communication between processes mapped to different cores. The TLM is further refined into a Pin-Cycle Accurate Model (PCAM) for board implementation. The PCAM includes C code for all the communication layers including routing, packeting, synchronization and bus transfer. The generated embedded SW provides a library of application level services to the C processes on individual SW cores. Therefore, the application developer does not need to write low level SW for board implementation. Synthesis results for an multi-core MP3 decoder design, using ESE, show that the embedded SW is generated in order of seconds, compared to hours of manual coding. The quality of synthesized code is comparable to manually written code in terms of performance and code size.