Embedded application prototyping on a communication-restricted reconfigurable platform

As the complexity of SoC is increasing, prototyping becomes more and more suitable than simulation to validate the design. Reconfigurable platform is the solution to attain this prototyping in realistic cost and time. Unfortunately, most of the reconfigurable platforms have fixed communication network. This property becomes a restriction to implement the nowadays applications which have very complex and sophisticated communication network. In this paper, we present a novel approach for embedded application prototyping using reconfigurable platform under communication restriction. The effectiveness of our approach is illustrated through an application example using an ARM Integrator platform.