Synthesis of concurrent system interface modules with automatic protocol conversion generation
ICCAD '94 Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Interface co-synthesis techniques for embedded systems
ICCAD '95 Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
An algorithm for synthesis of system-level interface circuits
Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Reuse methodology manual: for system-on-a-chip designs
Reuse methodology manual: for system-on-a-chip designs
MetaRTL: raising the abstraction level of RTL design
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
Automatic synthesis from UML/MARTE models using channel semantics
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Model Based Architecting and Construction of Embedded Systems
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With increasing availability of predefined IP (Intellectual Properties) blocks and inexpensive microprocessors, embedded system designers are faced with more design choices than ever. On the other hand, there is a constant pressure on reducing the time to market. However, as the IP blocks are provided by different vendors, they differ in their interfaces. In order to improve design reuse, methods for combining heterogeneous IP blocks with incompatible protocols and I/Os are needed. In this paper, we propose an interface synthesis method that uses the UML notation to model the interfaces of predefined components and glue logic within the standard OCP-compliant environment. We built a code generator to produce the interface adapters from the UML models. We experimented with our approach using simple-bus and a MPEG-2 decoder as case studies.