EPICURE: A partitioning and co-design framework for reconfigurable computing

This paper presents a new design methodology able to bridge the gap between an abstract specification and a heterogeneous recone architecture. The EPICURE contribution is the result of a joint study on abstraction/refinement methods and a smart reconfigurable architecture within the formal Esterel design tools suite. The original points of this work are: (i) a generic HW/SW interface model, (ii) a specification methodology that handles the control, and includes efficient verification and HW/SW synthesis capabiliii) a method for parallelism exploration based on abstract resources/performance estimation expressed in terms of area/delay tradeoffs, (iv) a HW/SW partitioning approach that refines the specification into explicit HW configurations and the associated SW control. The EPICURE framework shows how a cooperation of complementary methodologies and CAD tools associated with a relevant architecture can significantly improve the designer productivity, especially in the context of reco...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: MAM
• Authors: Jean-Philippe Diguet, Guy Gogniat, Jean Luc Philippe, Yannick Le Moullec, Sebastien Bilavarn, Christian Gamrat, Karim Ben Chehida, Michel Auguin, Xavier Fornari, Philippe Kajfasz
• Keywords: Heterogeneous Recone Architecture, MAM 2006, Reconfigurable Architectures, Smart Reconfigurable Architecture