Addressing the system-on-a-chip interconnect woes through communication-based design

  • Authors:
  • M. Sgroi;M. Sheets;A. Mihal;K. Keutzer;S. Malik;J. Rabaey;A. Sangiovanni-Vencentelli

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University;University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University;University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University;University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University;University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University;University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University;University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 38th annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Communication-based design represents a formal method approach to of system-on-a-chip design that considers communication between components as important as the computations they perform. “Our network-on-chip&rdqo ; approach partitions the communication into layers to maximize reuse and provide a programmer with an abstraction of the underlying communication framework. This layered approach is cast in the structure advocated by the OSI Reference network model and is demonstrated with a reconfigurable DSP example. The Metropolis methodology of deriving layers through a sequence of successive adaptation steps between incompatible behaviors refinement of communication is illustrated through the Intercom a design example. In another approach, MESCAL provides a designer with tools for a correct-by-construction protocol stack.