S. Pees, Integrated Syst. for Signal Process., Aachen Univ. of Technol., Germany
M. Vaupel, Integrated Syst. for Signal Process., Aachen Univ. of Technol., Germany
V. Zivojnovic, Integrated Syst. for Signal Process., Aachen Univ. of Technol., Germany
H. Meyr, Integrated Syst. for Signal Process., Aachen Univ. of Technol., Germany
In this survey, key drivers in design methodology are provided that enable successful design of systems-on-a-chip for the highly competitive telecommunications market. Main components of a design environment are described that fulfill the requirements of today's system design: efficient verification by means of fast simulation, integration of intellectual property, support of HW/SW co-design by means of a generic machine description language, generation of dedicated hardware blocks for high speed applications, and the link from system level performance evaluation to implementations in hardware and software.
Index Terms:
computational complexity; design perspective; systems-on-a-chip; highly competitive telecommunications market; design environment; system design; fast simulation; intellectual property; HW/SW co-design; system level performance evaluation
Citation:
S. Pees, M. Vaupel, V. Zivojnovic, H. Meyr, "On core and more: a design perspective for systems-on-a-chip," asap, pp.448, 1997 IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP'97), 1997