Increasing Design Productivity through Core Reuse, Meta-data Encapsulation, and Synthesis

Arnesen, Adam; Ellsworth, Kevin; Gibelyou, Derrick; Haroldsen, Travis; Havican, Jared; Padilla, Marc; Nelson, Brent; Rice, Michael; Wirthlin, Michael

doi:10.1109/fpl.2010.106

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“…Communication between components, based on IP-XACT, has been addressed in [2,16], which exploit IP-XACT to determine the correct configuration parameters for components that do not conform to standard interfaces or protocols. However, such methodologies are restricted to HDL descriptions modeled on the synchronous dataflow model of computation.…”

Section: The Ip-xact Standardmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…IP-XACT has been introduced as a standard for describing component interfaces and communication styles [1]. It provides metamodel information about the IPs (i.e., the adopted interface and protocols), that can be used for integration, composition and configuration of already existing components [2,16]. However, state of the art methodologies focus on digital RTL or TLM designs, thus excluding a large part of components and domains included in heterogeneous embedded systems (e.g., analog components of embedded SW).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The strange pair: IP-XACT and univerCM to integrate heterogeneous embedded systems

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Pravadelli

et al. 2012

2012 IEEE International High Level Design Validation and Test Workshop (HLDVT)

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Modern embedded systems require a tight integration among several heterogeneous components including digital and analog HW, as well as HW-dependent SW. In literature there is a lack of a complete approach, allowing reuse and at the same time supporting correct integration of heterogeneous components. Indeed, traditional approaches rely either on homogeneous top-down methodologies (that do not allow reuse) or on co-simulation (that does not guarantee correct integration). This paper proposes to combine IP-XACT and UNIVERCM. The former is an IEEE standard for specifying interface and communication style of digital IPs. The latter is a computational model that allows to represent the starting heterogeneous components in a homogeneous way. In this way, IP-XACT is used in this paper to support the integration of general heterogeneous components, to extract component interfaces and to generate the necessary connecting modules. Furthermore, UNIVERCM allows to generate a homogeneous representation of the components behavior (in a bottom-up flow) to allow simulation and validation of the generated components and of the final system. Thus, this strange pair allows integration and validation of system communication. The effectiveness of this novel approach has been proven on complex heterogeneous benchmarks.

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Section: The Ip-xact Standardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%