Platform based designs for future MPSoC architectures

This paper describes our communication centric platform based designs for future multi-processor system-on-chip (MPSoC) architectures. The proposed platforms have built in controller, thus making the heterogeneous IPs (reconfigurable, fixed & processor based) integrated in plug and play fashion. This eliminates the need of dedicated system controller to be integrated or programmed. Three platforms have been developed with different communication medium including a hybrid concept where bus based and crossbar based communication media co-exists in a single SoC. Each pre-verified platform has predicted characteristics and can be selected by user for desired application. The results show comparison of different power, area and throughput characteristics of these platforms.