Title
Memphis: a framework for heterogeneous many-core SoCs generation and validation
Abstract
This work presents Memphis, which comprises a flexible EDA framework and a many-core model for heterogeneous SoCs. The framework, together with the many-core model supports the integration of processors, network interfaces, routers, and peripherals. A set of tools enable a decoupled generation and compilation of the hardware, operating systems, and applications. The hardware model is cycle-accurate, with a SystemC model to speed up simulation time and a VHDL model enabling prototyping in FPGAs devices. The framework provides a rich set of graphical debugging tools enabling an easy and intuitive understanding of computation and communication events happening at runtime. The coupled integration of the platform model to the EDA framework makes Memphis well suited to be employed in research and teaching. As case studies, we provide a set of evaluations addressing the many-core generation, simulation, and debugging. Different applications sets were employed, enabling to characterize the computation and communication performance of the many-core, as well as, evaluate an AES encryption application performance according to different levels of parallelism.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s10617-019-09223-4
Design Automation for Embedded Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Heterogeneous many-core, NoC, Architecture model, Debug framework
Computer architecture,Advanced Encryption Standard,Computer science,Parallel computing,Field-programmable gate array,SystemC,VHDL,Speedup,Computation,Debugging,Network interface
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23
3
0929-5585
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marcelo Ruaro1104.57
Luciano L. Caimi242.12
Vinicius Fochi352.51
Fernando Moraes472043.62