Title :
Multimedia-application-driven instruction set architecture simulation
Author :
Barbieri, Ivano ; Bariani, Massimo ; Cabitto, Alberto ; Raggio, Marco
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Biophys. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Genova, Italy
Abstract :
This paper presents an application-driven architecture-design approach. VLIW architectures and instruction set simulation were chosen to fulfill multimedia domain requirements and to implement an efficient Hw-Sw co-design tool. Innovative approaches such as pipeline status modeling, simulation cache, and simulation oriented Hw description have been described. The performance of simulation tests for two validation case studies (TI TMS320C62x and ST200) are reported.
Keywords :
circuit simulation; computer architecture; digital signal processing chips; hardware-software codesign; instruction sets; multimedia computing; ST200; TI TMS320C62x; VLIW architectures; application-driven architecture-design; hardware-software co-design tool; instruction set simulation; multimedia domain requirements; multimedia-application-driven instruction set architecture simulation; Application software; Computer architecture; Digital signal processing chips; Instruction sets; Pipelines; Registers; Streaming media; System-on-a-chip; Testing; VLIW;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia and Expo, 2002. ICME '02. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7304-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICME.2002.1035539
