RAPANUI: A case study in Rapid Prototyping for Multiprocessor System-on-Chip

Author

Paya-Vaya, Guillermo ; Martín-Langerwerf, Javier ; Pirsch, Peter

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron. Syst., Leibniz Univ. of Hannover, Hannover, Germany

fYear

2007

fDate

29-31 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

215

Lastpage

221

Abstract

This paper describes a case study in a new rapid prototyping-based design framework for exploring and validating complex multiprocessor architectures for multimedia applications. The goal of the presented methodology is to speed up and improve the verification flow of a multiprocessor system that will finally be implemented as an ASIC. The case study consists of a 64-bit compatible AMBA AHB system bus which connects up to 14 32-Bit RISC processors to a host interface. A typical parallel computing application has been implemented for the parameterized multiprocessor system. The employed FPGA emulation environment increases by up to 200 the simulation frequency of the global system on a workstation (2.2 GHz AMD Dual Opteron with 8 GB RAM). Moreover a standalone emulation can be performed at the maximum achievable frequency (65 MHz).

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; integrated circuit design; multimedia computing; multiprocessing systems; parallel architectures; reduced instruction set computing; software prototyping; system buses; system-on-chip; AMBA AHB system bus; ASIC; FPGA emulation environment; RAPANUI; RISC processors; design verification; frequency 65 MHz; multimedia applications; multiprocessor architectures; multiprocessor system-on-chip; parallel computing application; parameterized multiprocessor system; rapid prototyping-based design framework; Application specific integrated circuits; Computational modeling; Emulation; Field programmable gate arrays; Frequency; Multiprocessing systems; Parallel processing; Prototypes; Reduced instruction set computing; System buses;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital System Design Architectures, Methods and Tools, 2007. DSD 2007. 10th Euromicro Conference on

Conference_Location

Lubeck

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-2978-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DSD.2007.4341471

Filename

4341471