Component-based design approach for multicore SoCs

  • Authors:
  • W. Cesário;A. Baghdadi;L. Gauthier;D. Lyonnard;G. Nicolescu;Y. Paviot;S. Yoo;A. A. Jerraya;M. Diaz-Nava

  • Affiliations:
  • TIMA Laboratory, SLS Group;TIMA Laboratory, SLS Group;TIMA Laboratory, SLS Group;TIMA Laboratory, SLS Group;TIMA Laboratory, SLS Group;TIMA Laboratory, SLS Group;TIMA Laboratory, SLS Group;TIMA Laboratory, SLS Group;STMicroelectronics, AST Grenoble Lab, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 39th annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper presents a high-level component-based methodology and design environment for application-specific multicore SoC architectures. Component-based design provides primitives to build complex architectures from basic components. This bottom-up approach allows design-architects to explore efficient custom solutions with best performances. This paper presents a high-level component-based methodology and design environment for application-specific multicore SoC architectures. The system specifications are represented as a virtual architecture described in a SystemC-like model and annotated with a set of configuration parameters. Our component-based design environment provides automatic wrapper-generation tools able to synthesize hardware interfaces, device drivers, and operating systems that implement a high-level interconnect API. This approach, experimented over a VDSL system, shows a drastic design time reduction without any significant efficiency loss in the final circuit.