Automatic IP Interface Synthesis Supporting Multi-Layer Communication Protocols in SoC Designs

摘要：

We present an automatic interface synthesis system to expedite the IP (silicon intellectual property) integration process in SoC designs. The concept of multi-layer communication protocols is incorporated into the synthesis process so that interface design targeting different levels of functionality and circuit complexity can be generated automatically. The multi-layered interface architecture template designs are addressed in the first place. We then outline the methodology of interface synthesis, which includes protocol specifications, signal mapping & timing adjustment, interface FSM, and architecture mapping. Interface designs for several benchmark systems are developed using different synthesis options. Besides the advantage of greatly shortened design cycle, the experimental results do show the competitiveness of the automatically generated designs against the manual designs.

关键词： SoC Interface synthesis HW/SW codesign IP integration

作者: Yin-Tsung Hwang Hua-Hsin Luo

作者单位: Department of Electrical Engineering National Chung Hsing University Taiwan

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The Fifth International Conference on Information Assurance and Security(第五届信息保障与安全国际会议)

会议地点: 西安

会议语种:英文

页码: 169-172

在线出版日期: 2009-08-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）