Bridge Over Troubled Wrappers: Automated Interface Synthesis

  • Authors:
  • Vijay D'silva;S. Ramesh;Arcot Sowmya

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • VLSID '04 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on VLSI Design
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

System-on-Chip (SoC) design methodologies rely heavilyon reuse of intellectual property (IP) blocks. IP reuse isa labour intensive and time consuming process as IP blocksoften have different communication interfaces. We presentan algorithm which automates the generation of provablycorrect HDL descriptions of interfaces between mismatchedIP communication protocols. We significantly improve andextend existing work by providing a solution which addressesdata mismatches, pipelining and differences in clockspeeds. These ideas have been implemented and the toolhas been used to synthesise wrappers and bridges for manySoC protocols.