MetaCore: an application specific DSP development system
Jin-Hyuk Yang, Byoung-Woon Kim, Sang-Jun Nam, Jang Ho Cho, Sung-Won Seo, Chang-Ho Ryu, Young-Su Kwon, Dae-Hyun Lee, Jong-Yeol Lee, Jong‐Sun Kim, Hyun-Dhong Yoon, Jae‐Yeol Kim, Kun-Moo Lee, Chan-Soo Hwang, In-Hyung Kim, Jun‐Sung Kim, Kwang‐Il Park, Kyu-Ko Park, Yong-Hoon Lee, Seung-Ho Hwang · 2002
This paper describes the MetaCore system which is an ASIP (Application-Specific Instruction set Processor) development system targeted for DSP applications. The goal of MetaCore system is to offer an efficient design methodology meeting specifications given as a combination of performance, cost and design turnaround time. MetaCore system consists of two major design stages: design exploration and design generation. In the design exploration stage, MetaCore system accepts a set of benchmark programs and a formal specification of ISA (Instruction Set Architecture), and estimates the hardware cost and performance for each hardware configuration being explored. Once a hardware configuration is chosen, the system helps generate a VLSI processor design in the form of HDL along with the application program development tools such as C compiler, assembler and instruction set simulator.