loading...
An Approach for Mixed Coarse-Granular and Fine-Granular Re-Configurable Architectures
Nice, France April 22-April 26
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2003.1213346International Parallel and Distribute ...
 This Article 
 
PDF
HTML
 
 Share 
   
 Bibliographic References 
   
 Add to: 
 
Digg
Furl
Spurl
Blink
Simpy
Google
Del.icio.us
Y!MyWeb
 
 Search 
   
R. Henftling, Infineon Technologies AG
W. Ecker, Infineon Technologies AG
A. Zinn, Infineon Technologies AG
M. Zambaldi, Infineon Technologies AG
M. Bauer, Infineon Technologies AG
This paper focuses on a mixed coarse-granular and fine-granular re-configurable architecture that is used to build hardware testbenches for the verification of ASICs or system-on-a-chip designs. Here, "coarse-granular" architecture refers to micro-sequencers, and "fine-granular" architecture refers to FPGAs. Hardware testbenches are derived from behavioral testbenches and testcases, which are written as micro-sequences. While the part of a testbench that controls the execution of the testcases is mapped to the coarse-granular architecture, the part that is responsible for the low-level protocol operations is mapped to the fine-granular architecture. The testcases are compiled into the program memories of the coarse-granular architecture. The mixed-granularity re-configurable architecture reduces modeling- and configuration-time as compared to a pure fine-granular solution. But it keeps the advantage of flexibility.
Index Terms:
re-configurable architecture, hardware testbenches, acceleration of functional simulation, coarse-granular, fine-granular
Citation:
R. Henftling, W. Ecker, A. Zinn, M. Zambaldi, M. Bauer, "An Approach for Mixed Coarse-Granular and Fine-Granular Re-Configurable Architectures," ipdps, pp.187a, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'03), 2003
Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use.


Suggestions