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Retargetable Processor System Integration into Multi-Processor System-on-Chip Platforms

  • New methodology with potential for obtaining best results in MP-SoC design
  • Most detailed book about retargetable processor system integration
  • Separate, elaborated introduction into state of the art for all 3 involved fields
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
  2. Introduction

    • Andreas Wieferink, Heinrich Meyr, Rainer Leupers
    Pages 1-6
  3. SOC Design Methodologies

    • Andreas Wieferink, Heinrich Meyr, Rainer Leupers
    Pages 7-23
  4. Communication Modeling

    • Andreas Wieferink, Heinrich Meyr, Rainer Leupers
    Pages 25-40
  5. Processor Modeling

    • Andreas Wieferink, Heinrich Meyr, Rainer Leupers
    Pages 41-52
  6. Processor System Integration

    • Andreas Wieferink, Heinrich Meyr, Rainer Leupers
    Pages 53-65
  7. Successive Top-Down Refinement Flow

    • Andreas Wieferink, Heinrich Meyr, Rainer Leupers
    Pages 67-79
  8. Automatic Retargetability

    • Andreas Wieferink, Heinrich Meyr, Rainer Leupers
    Pages 81-90
  9. Debugging and Profiling

    • Andreas Wieferink, Heinrich Meyr, Rainer Leupers
    Pages 91-107
  10. Case Study

    • Andreas Wieferink, Heinrich Meyr, Rainer Leupers
    Pages 109-126
  11. Summary

    • Andreas Wieferink, Heinrich Meyr, Rainer Leupers
    Pages 127-129
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 131-162

About this book

The ever increasing complexity of modern electronic devices together with the continually shrinking time-to-market and product lifetimes pose enormous chip design challenges to meet flexibility, performance and energy efficiency constraints. As a consequence, the current trend is towards programmable platforms (Multi-Processor System-on-Chip Platforms, MP-SoC), which are tailored to the respective target application. In the usual case, a new platform is designed by selecting and assembling standard platform elements.

However, best results can only be achieved if the processor cores and the communication modules themselves are also optimized for the target application. Effective exploration is only possible if accurate module simulators are generated automatically based on abstract specifications. As a matter of fact, CoWare’s BusCompiler allows generating accurate simulators for communication modules, and modeling languages such as LISA enable the same for processor cores.

In Retargetable Processor System Integration into Multi-Processor System-on-Chip Platforms, such originally independent approaches are combined in order to enable the development of highly optimized programmable platforms.

The first chapters of this book summarize the state of the art in all three involved fields separately: general system level design, communication modeling, and processor modeling. The main chapters then present a methodology and the associated tooling for enabling design space exploration as well as a successive refinement flow for the design of optimized MP-SoCs with a high degree of automation.

Authors and Affiliations

  • CoWare, Inc, 52070 Aachen, Germany

    Andreas Wieferink

  • ISS RWTH Aachen, 52056 Aachen, Germany

    Heinrich Meyr, Rainer Leupers

About the authors

Both Prof. Heinrich Meyr and Prof. Rainer Leupers have (co-)authored numerous books for Springer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Retargetable Processor System Integration into Multi-Processor System-on-Chip Platforms

  • Authors: Andreas Wieferink, Heinrich Meyr, Rainer Leupers

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8652-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8574-1Published: 15 July 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7916-9Published: 19 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8652-6Published: 08 July 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 162

  • Topics: Circuits and Systems, Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems

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