Fast prototyping: a system design flow for fast design, prototyping and efficient IP reuse

This paper describes a new design flow that significantly reduces time-to-market for highly complex multiprocessor-based system-on-chip (SOC) designs. This flow, put in place within STMicroelectronics and which is called fast prototyping, allows concurrent hardware and software development, early ve...

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Main Authors: Pogodalla, Francois, Hersemeule, Richard, Coulomb, Pierre
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Emulation
Hardware
Hardware > Hardware test
Hardware > Hardware validation
Modeling
Programming
Prototypes
Software prototyping
System-on-a-chip
Time to market
Virtual colonoscopy
Virtual prototyping
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Summary:This paper describes a new design flow that significantly reduces time-to-market for highly complex multiprocessor-based system-on-chip (SOC) designs. This flow, put in place within STMicroelectronics and which is called fast prototyping, allows concurrent hardware and software development, early verification and enables the productive re-use of intellectual property. We describe how using this innovative system design flow, that combines different technologies, such as C modeling, emulation, hard virtual component re-use and CoWare N2C, we achieve better productivity on a multiprocessor SOC design.
ISSN:1092-6100
2378-3966
DOI:10.1145/301177.301215