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Automatic generation of hardware dependent software for MPSoCs from abstract system specifications
Proceedings of the 2008 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
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Proceedings of the 2010 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
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This paper addresses the problem of long design cycle of MPSoCs communication SW with automatic synthesis. The tool we propose takes as input a transaction level model (TLM) of MPSoC communication and outputs pin and cycle-accurate (PCA) bus drivers that can be linked to the synthesizable PCA model (PCAM). The TL communication is simple since TLM channels abstract away protocol details. PCAM communication, in turn, includes explicit definitions for each signal and pin. However, in most cases the TLMs are not suitable for implementation since they do not reflect the MPSoC platform. Usually the designers simulate (fast) TLMs, then manually implement PCA communication. Our communication SW synthesis transforms TL send and receive functions into platform specific PCAM bus drivers which can be automatically downloaded to the FPGA board. The presented results demonstrate the significant productivity gain achieved with our tool, with no great cost to either code size or system performance.