DocumentCode
3254870
Title
Integration of Configurable Processors in a Multiprocessor Platform
Author
Provost, Simon ; Lavigueur, Bruno ; Bois, Guy ; Nicolescu, Gabriela
Author_Institution
Ecole Polytech. de Montreal, Montreal, QC
fYear
2006
fDate
24-27 Sept. 2006
Firstpage
221
Lastpage
224
Abstract
To reach current SoCs constraint of flexibility without loosing performance, system designers need to avoid custom logic and replace it by multiple processors and custom instruction extensions. In this paper, we bring a new codesign methodology which targets MPSoC comprising of multiple configurable processors. By applying this methodology to an MPEG-4 encoder we show that the approach gives a speedup factor that is almost linear with the number of processors.
Keywords
hardware-software codesign; instruction sets; integrated circuit design; multiprocessing systems; system-on-chip; video coding; MPEG-4 encoder; SoC; codesign methodology; custom instruction extensions; multiple configurable processors; multiprocessor platform; speedup factor; Acceleration; Application software; Cellular phones; Coprocessors; Costs; Energy consumption; Logic design; MPEG 4 Standard; Registers; Testing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
SOC Conference, 2006 IEEE International
Conference_Location
Taipei
Print_ISBN
0-7803-9781-9
Electronic_ISBN
0-7803-9782-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/SOCC.2006.283885
Filename
4063054
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