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AUTHOR
S. Boukhechem
Co-simulation platform based on systemc for multiprocessor system on chip architecture exploration
Currently multiprocessor embedded systems are the principal vectors of semiconductor industry. Modelling, validating and analyzing a system performances impose the evolution of the traditional simulation techniques. In this paper we define the methodology we used in constructing the STARSoC co-simulation environment. This platform aims to explore at higher levels of abstractions a multiprocessors system on chip architectures. The platform reference design contains several OpenRISC 1200 Instruction Set Simulators (ISSs) wrapped under SystemC, and some basic peripherals within the SystemC simulation framework. Our purpose is to develop a complete design space exploration tool. In order to ass…
Communication Interface Generation For HW/SW Architecture In The STARSoC Environment
Mapping the application functionality to software and hardware requires automated methods to specify, generate and optimize the hardware, software, and the interface architectures between them. In this paper, we present a methodology flow to hardware-software communication synthesis for system-on-a-chip (SoC) design through STARSoC (Synthesis Tool for Adaptive and Reconfigurable System-on-a-Chip) tool for rapid prototyping. Our concept consists of a set of hardware and software processes, described in C-code, communicates through the streams channels. This methodology consists in analyzing dependences of data between processes and synthesis a custom architecture to interface it. Firstly, we…
TLMCO-simulation for an open source MPSOC platform under STARSoC environment
In the last decade, the embedded systems become more and more complex. This complexity is due to the fact that these systems contain more heterogeneous hardware and software components (CPUpsilas, DSP, IP, etc.). Such systems called multiprocessor-on-chip (MPSoC) require new design approaches in order to satisfy several constraints, verification time, cost and time to market.