Automatic mutli-connectivity interface generation for system designs based on a dataflow description

This paper presents a contribution to the development of rapid prototyping tools based on dataflow description. In this context, a major key goal is to propose a design flow which includes an automatic synthesis of the hardware interfaces. Therefore, this paper presents a methodology to define and generate automatically a system´s interface from a data-flow description. To achieve such an ambitious goal, a generic hardware socket has been defined. This paper presents especially the serialization and de-serialization of different data flows between the hardware design and the physical interface. Different strategies are therefore compared and discussed.