Interface synthesis for IP based design

Author

Park, Bong-II ; Park, In-Cheol ; Kyung, Chong-Min

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Taejon, South Korea

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

227

Lastpage

230

Abstract

In system-on-a-chip design, interfacing of Intellectual Property (IP) blocks is one of the most important issues. Since most IPs are provided by different vendors, they have different interface schemes and different operating frequencies. In this paper, we propose a new interface synthesis method that enables one not only to handle the interface between IPs with different operating frequencies but also to minimize the hardware resource required for the interface. We have demonstrated the proposed algorithm by applying it to a real design example, MP3 decoder, and verified the IIS-to-PCI protocol converter on a real hardware system

Keywords

application specific integrated circuits; circuit CAD; finite state machines; industrial property; integrated circuit design; protocols; IIS-to-PCI protocol converter; IP based design; MP3 decoder; hardware resource; intellectual property blocks; interface schemes; interface synthesis method; system-on-a-chip design; Algorithm design and analysis; Clocks; Decoding; Design methodology; Digital audio players; Frequency synthesizers; Hardware; Protocols; System-on-a-chip; Transistors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ASICs, 2000. AP-ASIC 2000. Proceedings of the Second IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Cheju

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6470-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APASIC.2000.896950

Filename

896950