ISE language: the ADL for Efficient Development of Cross Toolkits
Nikolay Pakulin, Vladimir V. Rubanov · 2008
Cross toolkits (assembler, linker, debugger, simulator, pro- filer) are widely used for software-hardware codesign; an early creation of cross toolkits is an important success factor for industrial embedded systems. At the hardware design stage systems are subject to significant design alterations including changes in the instruction set of target CPUs. This is a challenging issue for early cross toolkit development. In this pa- per, we present a new Architecture Description Language (ADL) called ISE language and an approach to early cross toolkit development to cope with hardware design changes. The paper introduces the MetaDSP framework that supports ISE-based construction of cross toolkits and gives brief overview of the MetaDSP applications to industrial projects that proves the industrial strength of the presented approach and tools.