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2003
IEEE
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Hierarchical Global Floorplacement Using Simulated Annealing and Network Flow Area Migration
– Floorplanning large designs with many hard macros and IP blocks of various sizes is becoming an increasingly important and challenging problem. This paper presents a global flo...
Wonjoon Choi, Kia Bazargan
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2003
IEEE
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A General Framework for Analysing System Properties in Platform-Based Embedded System Designs
We present a framework (Real-Time Calculus) for analysing various system properties pertaining to timing analysis, loads on various components and on-chip buffer memory requiremen...
Samarjit Chakraborty, Simon Künzli, Lothar Th...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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Scheduling and Timing Analysis of HW/SW On-Chip Communication in MP SoC Design
On-chip communication design includes designing software (SW) parts (operating system, device drivers, interrupt service routines, etc.) as well as hardware (HW) parts (on-chip co...
Youngchul Cho, Ganghee Lee, Sungjoo Yoo, Kiyoung C...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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Layered, Multi-Threaded, High-Level Performance Design
A primary goal of high-level modeling is to efficiently explore a broad design space, converging on an optimal or near-optimal system architecture before moving to a more detaile...
Andrew S. Cassidy, JoAnn M. Paul, Donald E. Thomas
DATE
2003
IEEE
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Processor/Memory Co-Exploration on Multiple Abstraction Levels
Gunnar Braun, Andreas Wieferink, Oliver Schliebusc...
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2003
IEEE
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From C Programs to the Configure-Execute Model
João M. P. Cardoso, Markus Weinhardt
DATE
2003
IEEE
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Qualifying Precision of Abstract SystemC Models Using the SystemC Verification Standard
ng precision of abstract SystemC models using the SystemC Verification Standard Franco Carbognani1 , Christopher K. Lennard2 , C. Norris Ip3 , Allan Cochrane2 , Paul Bates2 1 Caden...
Franco Carbognani, Christopher K. Lennard, C. Norr...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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Transaction-Level Models for AMBA Bus Architecture Using SystemC 2.0
The concept of a SOC platform architecture introduces the concept of a communication infrastructure. In the transaction-level a finite set of architecture components (memories, ar...
Marco Caldari, Massimo Conti, Massimo Coppola, Ste...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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System-Level Power Analysis Methodology Applied to the AMBA AHB Bus
The specification on power consumption of a digital system is extremely important due to the growing relevance of the market of portable devices and must be taken into account sin...
Marco Caldari, Massimo Conti, Massimo Coppola, Pao...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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SystemC-VHDL Co-Simulation and Synthesis in the HW Domain
Embedded systems design requires the development of complex HW modules to cope with the most stringent timing constraints of the specifications. This implies the need to update an...
Massimo Bombana, Francesco Bruschi