Title :
Multicore design is the challenge! What is the solution?
Author :
Haritan, Eshel ; Yagi, Hiroyuki ; Wolf, Wayne ; Hattori, Toshihiro ; Paulin, Pierre ; Nohl, Achim ; Wingard, Drew ; Muller, Mike
Author_Institution :
CoWare Inc., San Jose, CA
Abstract :
Multi Processor SoC (MPSoC) are being designed today. MPSoC design can help achieve aggressive performance and low power targets but it creates new design challenges: How to design the interconnect fabric and memory sub-system to allow the massive data movement required in a multi processor SoC environment? How to develop, debug and verify HW and SW functionality in a MPSoC design? Is MPSoC design an inflection point that will require new design methods including ESL methodologies?
Keywords :
integrated circuit design; integrated circuit interconnections; integrated memory circuits; logic design; system-on-chip; ESL methodology; MPSoC design; data movement; electronic system level methodology; inflection point; interconnect fabric design; memory sub-system; multicore design; multiprocessor SoC; Algorithm design and analysis; Application software; Computer architecture; Costs; Design methodology; Design optimization; Functional programming; Hardware; Multicore processing; Silicon; ESL; MPSoC; Multi-core; Multiprocessors; Virtual Platforms; Virtual Prototyping; heterogeneous/homogenous multicore; interconnect; programming model; symmetric/asymmetric multicore;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference, 2008. DAC 2008. 45th ACM/IEEE
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-60558-115-6
