Communication synthesis for system-on-chip
Dongwan Shin, Daniel D. Gajski · 2004
With the ever increasing complexity of system level designs and the pressure of the time-to-market in the design of System-on-Chip (SoC), communication between components is becoming more and more important. Communication design for SoCs poses the unique challenges in order to cover a wide range of architectures while offering new opportunities for optimizations based on the application specific nature of system designs. In this thesis, we propose a communication design methodology that enables rapid design space exploration in order to message passing channels down to a cycle-accurate implementation. We also implemented automatic model generation tools which apply transformations to a model in order to represent and implement design decisions taken from the users or from automatic decision-making algorithms. The experimental results show the benefits of our methodology and demonstrate the effectiveness of our automatic model generation for communication design.