Fast Prototyping of POSIX Based Applications on a Multiprocessor SoC Architecture: "Hardware-Dependent Software Oriented Approach"

Author

Senouci, Benaoumeur ; Bouchhima, Aimen ; Rousseau, Frédéric ; Petrot, Frédéric ; Jerraya, Ahmed

Author_Institution

System-Level Synthesis Group, Grenoble

fYear

2006

fDate

14-16 June 2006

Firstpage

69

Lastpage

75

Abstract

This paper describes our experience in using the POSIX API standard for MPSoC applications prototyping on a reconfigurable multiprocessor ARM architecture. Applications running on this platform use a symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) POSIX compliant kernel named MUTEK. This work allows us to investigate and understand the complexities of the hardware/software interface design process. We propose a new generic MPSoC prototyping flow based on the POSIX standard, which allows fast prototyping of POSIX threads based applications

Keywords

Unix; application program interfaces; logic design; microprocessor chips; prototypes; reconfigurable architectures; system-on-chip; MUTEK; POSIX API standard; fast prototyping; hardware dependent software; hardware-software interface design; multiprocessor SoC architecture; reconfigurable multiprocessor ARM architecture; Application software; Computer architecture; Digital signal processing; Hardware; Kernel; Operating systems; Process design; Software design; Software prototyping; Software standards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Rapid System Prototyping, 2006. Seventeenth IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Chania, Crete

ISSN

1074-6005

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2580-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RSP.2006.17

Filename

1630752