Foreword. Preface.- 1. INTRODUCTION. 1.1 Challenge: From Board to SoC. 1.2 Degrees of SoC Customization. 1.3 Organization of this Book.- 2. SOC DESIGN METHODOLOGIES. 2.1 Traditional HW/SW Co-Design. 2.2 System Level Design. 2.3 Current Research on SoC Design Methodologies. 2.4 Contribution of this Work.- 3. COMMUNICATION MODELING. 3.1 Transaction Level Modeling. 3.2 Generic Communication Modeling. 3.3 Communication Customization. 3.4 The BusCompiler Tool.- 4. PROCESSOR MODELING. 4.1 Generic Processor Modeling. 4.2 Processor Customization Techniques. 4.3 LISA.- 5. PROCESSOR SYSTEM INTEGRATION. 5.1 Simulator Structure. 5.2 Adaptors: Bridging Abstraction Gaps. 5.3 Commercial SoC Simulation Environments.- 6. SUCCESSIVE TOP-DOWN REFINEMENT FLOW. 6.1 Phase 1: Standalone. 6.2 Phase 2: IA ASIP - AVF Communication Models. 6.3 Phase 3: IA ASIP - CA TLM Bus. 6.4 Phase 4: CA ASIP - CA TLM Bus. 6.5 Phase 5: BCA ASIP - CA TLM Bus. 6.6 Phase 6: RTL ASIP - CA TLM Bus. 6.7 Phase 7: RTL ASIP - RTL Bus.- 7. AUTOMATIC RETARGETABILITY. 7.1 MP-SoC Simulator Generation Chain. 7.2 Structure of the Generated Simulator. 7.3 Bus Interface Specification.- 8. DEBUGGING AND PROFILING. 8.1 Multiprocessor Debugger. 8.2 TLM Bus Traffic Visualization. 8.3 Bus Interface Analysis.- 9. CASE STUDY. 9.1 Multi Processor JPEG Decoding Platform. 9.2 Phase 2: IA+AVF Platform. 9.3 Phase 3: IA + BusCompiler Platform. 9.4 Phase 4: CA + BusCompiler Platform. 9.5 Phase 5: BCA + BusCompiler Platform.- 10. SUMMARY.- Appendices. A. Businterface Definition Files. A.1 Generic AMBA 2.0 Protocol. A.2 Derived AMBA 2.0 Protocols. A.3 AMBA 2.0 Bus Interface Specification. B. Extended CoWare Tool Flow.- List of Figures. References. Index.
EAN/ISBN : 9781402086526
Publisher(s): Springer Netherlands
Format: ePub/PDF

Author(s): Wieferink, Andreas - Meyr, Heinrich - Leupers, Rainer