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

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

169

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2002. ICME '02. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7304-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2002.1035539

Filename

1035539