Multi-processor System-level Synthesis for Multiple Applications on Platform FPGA

Multiprocessor systems-on-chip (MPSoC) are being developed in increasing numbers to support the high number of applications running on modern embedded systems. Designing and programming such systems prove to be a major challenge. Most of the current design methodologies rely on creating the design by hand, and are therefore error-prone and time-consuming. This also limits the number of design points that can be explored. While some efforts have been automate the flow and raise the abstraction level, these are still limited to single-application designs. In this paper, we present a design methodology to generate and program MPSoC designs in a systematic and automated way for multiple applications. The architecture is automatically inferred from the application specifications, and customized for it. The flow is ideal for fast design space exploration (DSE) in MPSoC systems. We present results of a case study to compute the buffer-throughput trade-offs in real-life applications, H263 ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: FPL
• Authors: Akash Kumar, Shakith Fernando, Yajun Ha, Bart Mesman, Henk Corporaal
• Keywords: Current Design Methodologies, Design, FPL 2007, Hardware, Modern Embedded Systems