Paper Info
Title
Towards Bridging The Gap Between Academic And Industrial Heterogeneous System Architecture Design Space Exploration
Abstract
Heterogeneous system architectures (HSA) have become a focal point and a commodity not only in high-performance but also in embedded systems. In existing freely available or open-sourced design space exploration (DSE) tools, we typically find software-only models of proprietary architectures without any register-transfer level (RTL) hardware descriptions available, leading to a shortage in research tools for academia. This prevents the DSE and does also not suit the requirements for designing the resulting HSAs in the way that simulation results cannot immediately be fed back into realistic hardware models, therefore making it hard if not infeasible to properly verify and validate novel findings against real-world implementations. Here, tools are required that enable a holistic DSE in order to achieve a desired hardware/software co-design for heterogeneous systems. In this paper we present an approach that closes this gap, enabling a holistic DSE for academia and academic research by establishing a freely available HSA virtual platform (VP) with its software as well as its corresponding RTL description.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2852339.2852343
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2016 WORKSHOP ON RAPID SIMULATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION: METHODS AND TOOLS, RAPIDO'16
Keywords
Field
DocType
heterogeneous design space exploration, abstraction, simulation, SoC, SystemC, TLM, virtual platform
Focal point,Abstraction,Software engineering,Computer science,Bridging (networking),SystemC,Implementation,Software,Design space exploration,Heterogeneous System Architecture,Embedded system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
13
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Patrick Siegl131.08
Rainer Buchty214318.44
Mladen Berekovic335243.38