Methodology and technology for virtual component driven hardware/software co-design on the system-level

Krolikoski, Stan; Schirrmeister, Frank; Salefski, Bill; Rowson, Jim; Martin, G.

doi:10.1109/iscas.1999.780193

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“…In recent years, there has been a substantial amount of work in the system design community targeting the design of SoC-s (System on Chip), and making use of existing components (IP blocks, also called Virtual Components) [18,6,19,20,7]. Unfortunately, most of these approaches handle lowlevel interconnection issues in system design, and provide very little tool support.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Extending component-based design with hardware components

Arató¹,

Mann²,

Orbán³

2005

Science of Computer Programming

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In order to cope with the increasing complexity of system design, component-based software engineering advocates the reuse and adaptation of existing software components. However, many applications particularly embedded systems consist of not only software, but also hardware components. Thus, component-based design should be extended to systems with both hardware and software components.Such an extension is not without challenges though. The extended methodology has to consider hard constraints on performance as well as dierent cost factors. Also, the dissimilarities between hardware and software (such as level of abstraction, communication primitives etc.) have to be resolved.In this paper, the authors propose such an extended component-based design methodology to include hardware components as well. This methodology allows the designer to work at a very high level of abstraction, where the focus is on functionality only. Non-functional constraints are specied in a declarative manner, and the mapping of components to hardware or software is determined automatically based on those constraints in the so-called hardware/software partitioning step.Moreover, a tool is presented supporting the new design methodology. Beside automating the partitioning process, this tool also checks the consistency between hardware and software implementations of a component.The authors also present a case study to demonstrate the applicability of the outlined concepts.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Extending component-based design with hardware components

Arató¹,

Mann²,

Orbán³

2005

Science of Computer Programming

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“…9/36 framework [11, 19,20,30,40,41,43]. A similar approach, with two distinct communication layers (message and packet layer) has been implemented in IPSIM, an ST Microelectronics-proprietary SystemC-based MPSoC modeling environment [12,14,15].…”

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OCCN: a NoC modeling framework for design exploration

Coppola

Curaba

Grammatikakis

et al. 2004

Journal of Systems Architecture

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“…System-level design issues are addressed in [3], [4], [5]. In [9] a fast prototyping approach of complex systems is considered.…”

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Component-Based Hardware-Software Co-design

Arató

Mann

Orbán

2004

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract-The unbelievable growth in the complexity of computer systems poses a difficult challenge on system design. To cope with these problems, new methodologies are needed that allow the reuse of existing designs in a hierarchical manner, and at the same time let the designer work on the highest possible abstraction level.Such reusable building blocks are called components in the software world and IP (intellectual property) blocks in the hardware world. Based on the similarity between these two notions the authors propose a new system-level design methodology, called component-based hardware-software co-design, which allows rapid prototyping and functional simulation of complex hardware-software systems. Moreover, a tool is presented supporting the new design methodology and a case study is shown to demonstrate the applicability of the concepts.

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Methodology and technology for virtual component driven hardware/software co-design on the system-level

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Extending component-based design with hardware components

Extending component-based design with hardware components

OCCN: a NoC modeling framework for design exploration

Component-Based Hardware-Software Co-design

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