Object-based hardware/software component interconnection model for interface design in system-on-a-chip circuits

  • Authors:
  • W. Cesário;L. Gauthier;D. Lyonnard;G. Nicolescu;A. A. Jerraya

  • Affiliations:
  • TIMA Laboratory, 46 av. Félix Viallet, 38000, Grenoble, France;Institute of Systems and Information Technologies, Fukuoka SRP Center Building, 7F, 2-1-22, Momochihama, Japan;TIMA Laboratory, 46 av. Félix Viallet, 38000, Grenoble, France;TIMA Laboratory, 46 av. Félix Viallet, 38000, Grenoble, France;TIMA Laboratory, 46 av. Félix Viallet, 38000, Grenoble, France

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: Rapid system prototyping
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The design of system-on-a-chip (SoC) circuits requires the integration of complex hardware/software components that are customized to efficiently execute a specific application. Nowadays, these components include many different embedded processors executing concurrent software tasks. In this paper, we present an object-based component interconnection model to represent both hardware and software components within a system architecture in a very high level of abstraction. This model is used in a design flow for automatic generation of hardware/software interfaces for SoC circuits. Design tools for automatic generation of embedded operating systems, hardware interfaces and associated device drivers are presented and evaluated using the results obtained with a VDSL application.