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

fYear

2008

fDate

8-13 June 2008

Firstpage

128

Lastpage

130

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design Automation Conference, 2008. DAC 2008. 45th ACM/IEEE

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

ISSN

0738-100X

Print_ISBN

978-1-60558-115-6

Type

conf

Filename

4555795