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Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering)  2009, Vol. 10 Issue (2): 151-164    DOI: 10.1631/jzus.A0820085
Electrical & Electronic Engineering     
Gradual refinement for application-specific MPSoC design from Simulink model to RTL implementation
Kai HUANG, Xiao-lang YAN, Sang-il HAN, Soo-ik CHAE, Ahmed A. JERRAYA, Katalin POPOVICI, Xavier GUERIN, Lisane BRISOLARA, Luigi CARRO
Institute of VLSI Design, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China; System Design Group, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-744, Korea; CEA-LETI, Grenoble 38054, France; SLS Group, TIMA Laboratory, Grenoble 38031, France; Informatics Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre 15064, Brazil
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Abstract  The application-specific multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) architecture is becoming an attractive solution to deal with increasingly complex embedded applications, which require both high performance and flexible programmability. As an effective method for MPSoC development, we present a gradual refinement flow starting from a high-level Simulink model to a synthesizable and executable hardware and software specification. The proposed methodology consists of five different abstract levels: Simulink combined algorithm and architecture model (CAAM), virtual architecture (VA), transactional accurate architecture (TA), virtual prototype (VP) and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) emulation. Experimental results of Motion-JPEG and H.264 show that the proposed gradual refinement flow can generate various MPSoC architectures from an original Simulink model, allowing processor, communication and tasks design space exploration.

Key words： Multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) design      Refinement      Simulink      SystemC      Motion-JPEG      H.264     
Received: 28 January 2008     
CLC:  TN402  
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Kai HUANG, Xiao-lang YAN, Sang-il HAN, Soo-ik CHAE, Ahmed A. JERRAYA, Katalin POPOVICI, Xavier GUERIN, Lisane BRISOLARA, Luigi CARRO. Gradual refinement for application-specific MPSoC design from Simulink model to RTL implementation. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering), 2009, 10(2): 151-164.

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