Automatic synthesis of the Hardware/Software Interface

Although Moore’s Law enables a huge number of components to be integrated into a single chip, design methods that will allow system architects to put the components together to achieve cost, power and time-to-market targets are severely lacking. System-level design and optimization techniques can significantly reduce the design gap by providing solutions that achieve correct-by-construction approach rather than the correct-by-iteration approach. This paper presents a programmatic interface generation tool for automating the generation of the hardware/software interfaces in the context of multiprocessor Systems-On-Chips, The solutions that we present are of crucial importance in a platform based design environment for building a flexible system with reusable IPs and CPU cores.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: FDL
• Authors: Francesco Regazzoni, André C. Nácul, Marcello Lajolo
• Keywords: FDL 2005, Programmatic Interface Generation, System-level Design, Time-to-market Targets