An open platform for developing multiprocessor SoCs

Nanometer technologies integrate hundreds of millions of transistors in a single chip. Opportunities provided by these technologies, combined with the consolidation of platform-based design approaches, the evolution toward multiprocessor architectures, and consideration of the network-on-chip (NoC)...

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Published in:Computer (Long Beach, Calif.) Calif.), 2005-07, Vol.38 (7), p.60-67
Main Authors: Nava, M.D., Blouet, P., Teninge, P., Coppola, M., Ben-Ismail, T., Picchiottino, S., Wilson, R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer architecture
Computer programs
Computer simulation
computing nodes
Design engineering
Design methodology
Emulation
Hardware
hardware emulation platform
HW/SW development
Integrated circuit interconnections
Microprocessors
MPSoCs
Multiprocessing systems
Multiprocessor
multiprocessor systems
Nanotechnology
network interfaces
Network-on-a-chip
Parallel processing
Platforms
Program verification (computers)
Programming
Prototypes
Software
System on chip
Topology
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Summary:Nanometer technologies integrate hundreds of millions of transistors in a single chip. Opportunities provided by these technologies, combined with the consolidation of platform-based design approaches, the evolution toward multiprocessor architectures, and consideration of the network-on-chip (NoC) paradigm suggest new methods for designing and verifying embedded systems. Clearly, a pure software simulation platform can't provide the performance required for developing multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) designs. One of the main design risks for today's systems is the architecture, which developers must validate as early as possible in the overall system design cycle because it has the biggest impact on system dimensioning and performance. To solve these problems, we've studied a reconfigurable MPSoC emulation platform and developed the main emulation subsystem and board. A low-cost modular approach that uses emulation offers an alternative to software simulation for the design and verification of complex multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) designs.
ISSN:0018-9162
1558-0814
DOI:10.1109/MC.2005.218