Trilobite: A Natural Modeling Framework for Processor Design Automation System

摘要：

In this paper,we present a Natural Modeling Framework for Processor Design Automation System,Trilobite.Unlike other systems solicite explicit pipeline and instruction definitions to direct them,Trilobite gives the designer the freedom to model the processor in the high-level Behavior Accurate Processor Description (BAPD),which is based on the basic building block Mere and PDSDL (Python based Dynamic System Description Language 1). Given the BAPD, software development and hardware synthesis can be performed simultaneously with four verification stages varying in accuracy and speed. Various translators and optimizers are introduced to convert BAPD to PDSDL, finally to Hardware Description Language (HDL). This powerful toolset could build diverse circuits ranging from simple combinational and sequential circuit to advanced pipelined superscalar. Compared to the determinate modeling inside traditional ADL, Trilobite is powerful and flexible. The preliminary result of our Java Processor System based on Trilobite is given at the end It proves to be effective and productive.

关键词： Trilobite Design Automation System PDSDL Python

作者: Mi Zhang Guang Hu ZhiLei Chai ShiLiang Tu

作者单位: Department of Computer science and engineering,Fudan University,Shanghai,China School of Information Technology,Jiangnan University,Wuxi,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2009 IEEE 8th International Conference on ASIC(第八届IEEE国际专用集成电路大会)

会议地点: 长沙

会议语种:英文

页码: 698-703

在线出版日期: 2009-10-20（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）