Automatic network generation for system-on-chip communication design

With growing system complexities, system-level communication design is becoming increasingly important and advanced, network-oriented communication architectures become necessary. In this paper, we extend previous work on automatic communication refinement to support nontraditional, network-oriented architectures beyond a single bus. From an abstract description of the desired communication channels, the refinement tools automatically generate executable models and implementations of the system communication at various levels of abstraction. Experimental results show that significant productivity gains can be achieved, demonstrating the effectiveness of the approach for rapid, early communication design space exploration. Categories and Subject Descriptors J.6 [Computer-Aided Engineering]: CAD General Terms Design, Alogithms Keywords System level design, communication synthesis

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CODES
• Authors: Dongwan Shin, Andreas Gerstlauer, Rainer Dömer, Daniel D. Gajski
• Keywords: CODES 2005, Communication, Communication Design, Hardware-Software Codesign, System-level Communication Design