Automatic Communication Synthesis with Hardware Sharing for Multi-Processor SoC Design

作者：Ando Yuki^*; Shibata Seiya; Honda Shinya; Tomiyama Hiroyuki; Takada Hiroaki

来源：IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics Communications and Computer Sciences, 2010, E93A(12): 2509-2516.

DOI：10.1587/transfun.E93.A.2509

• system level design
• hardware sharing
• design space exploration
• MPSoC

We present a hardware sharing method for design space exploration of multi processor embedded systems In our prior work we had developed a system level design tool named System Builder which automatically synthesizes target implementation of a system from a functional description In this work we have extended System Builder so that It can automatically synthesize an area efficient implementation which shares a hardware module among different applications With System Builder designers only need to enable an option in order to share a hardware module The designers therefore can easily explore a design space including hard ware sharing in short time A case study shows the effectiveness of the hardware sharing on design spice exploration

• 出版日期2010-12