Paper Info
Title
ESL design and HW/SW co-verification of high-end software defined radio platforms
Abstract
Multiple wireless technologies are converging to run on personal handhelds. The plethora of communication standards next to the cost issues of deeper submicron processing require handheld platforms to shift from sets of multiple application specific ICs (ASICs) to multi-purpose Multi-Processor System-on-Chip (MPSoC) on which Software Defined Radios (SDR) are run. SDR design faces hard real-time processing and data transfer latency constraints. Designing SDR under stringent time-to-market (cost), energy and real-time processing constraints requires the help of advanced Electronic System-Level (ESL) design methodologies. This paper demonstrates an integrated ESL design flow built on advanced ESL tools to design SDR platforms for handhelds. We share the experience from creation of a high-level virtual platform model down to hardware/software (HW/SW) co-verification of a large scale SoC (5 million gates+). Incremental RTL verification based on co-simulation and co-emulation is also presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1145/1289816.1289864
CODES+ISSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
real-time processing,sdr design,advanced electronic system-level,designing sdr,radio platform,deeper submicron processing,design methodology,advanced esl tool,sdr platform,high-end software,integrated esl design flow,real-time processing constraint,sw co-verification,design flow,emulation,gain control,electronic system level,verification,throughput,data transfer,sdr,system on chip,application specific integrated circuits,software defined radio,asic,synchronization,software radio,real time processing
Computer architecture,Wireless,System on a chip,Software-defined radio,Computer science,Design flow,Real-time computing,Application-specific integrated circuit,Software,Emulation,MPSoC,Embedded system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
4
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
A. C. H. Ng100.34
Jan-Willem Weijers2142.49
M. Glassee330.85
T. Schuster481.01
B. Bougard51107.70
L. Van der Perre633830.09