Paper Info
Title
Front-End Design Flows for Systems on Chip: An Embedded Tutorial
Abstract
This tutorial describes the design flows, that is, the design steps and software tools required for designing modern systems-on-chip, focusing on the front end part. A simple flow starting with abstract design description in an HDL and going through transformations leading to physical design, is no longer adequate for the complex systems of today. A high end MPSoC (multiprocessor system on chip) today includes, apart from multiple processors, multiple memory modules, high performance interconnection network, custom hardware blocks, and a variety of controllers and interfaces. Some of the issues that need to be addressed while designing such systems are - integrated design of hardware and software, customization of processors for given applications in order to get the right power performance tradeoffs, use of certain platforms and pre-designed IPs, design of interconnection mechanisms among the processors and mapping of application onto the architecture. Therefore, our description of design flow includes several ‘sub-flows’ that are required to take care of these aspects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/VLSI.Design.2010.70
VLSI Design
Keywords
Field
DocType
design flow,front-end design flows,interconnection mechanism,physical design,design step,abstract design description,high performance interconnection network,high end,custom hardware block,front end part,integrated design,simulation,system on a chip,complex system,hardware,integrated circuit design,computer architecture,front end,system on chip,topology,prototyping
Front and back ends,Computer architecture,System on a chip,Computer science,Design flow,Integrated circuit design,Integrated design,Software,Physical design,MPSoC,Embedded system
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1063-9667
978-1-4244-5541-6
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.45
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anshul Kumar139948.45
Preeti Ranjan Panda278689.40