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Service dependency graph: an efficient model for hardware/software interfaces modeling and generation for SoC design

Authors:

Adriano Sarmento,

Arnaud Grasset,

Mohamed-Wassim Youssef,

Aimen Bouchhima,

Frederic Rousseau,

Wander Cesario,

Ahmed Amine JerrayaAuthors Info & Claims

CODES+ISSS '05: Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis

Pages 261 - 266

https://doi.org/10.1145/1084834.1084900

Published: 19 September 2005 Publication History

Abstract

Complex systems-on-chip are designed by interconnecting pre-designed hardware (HW) and software (SW) components. During the design cycle, a global model of the SoC may be composed of HW and SW models at different abstraction levels. Designing HW/SW interfaces to interconnect SoC components is a source of design bottlenecks. This paper describes a service-based model enabling systematic design and co-simulation of HW/SW interfaces for SoC design. This model, called Service dependency graph (SDG) allows modeling of complex and application-specific interfaces. We present also a model generator that can automatically build HW/SW interfaces based on service and resource requirements described by the SDG. This approach has been applied successfully on the design of an MPEG-4 encoder. Additionally the SDG seems to be an excellent intermediate representation for the design automation of HW/SW interfaces.

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Service dependency graph: an efficient model for hardware/software interfaces modeling and generation for SoC design
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
  2. Real-time systems

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CODES+ISSS '05: Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis

September 2005

356 pages

ISBN:1595931619

DOI:10.1145/1084834

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Linköping University, Sweden
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Zhao DLiu SWu LWang RMeng X(2012)Hypergraph-Based Service Dependency Resolving and Its ApplicationsProceedings of the 2012 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Services Computing10.1109/SCC.2012.25(106-113)Online publication date: 24-Jun-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/SCC.2012.25
Sørensen PMadsen J(2010)Generating Process Network Communication Infrastructure for Custom Multi-Core PlatformsInternational Journal of Embedded and Real-Time Communication Systems10.4018/jertcs.20101030031:1(37-63)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.4018/jertcs.2010103003
Gheorghe LBouchhima FNicolescu GBoucheneb H(2006)Formal Definitions of Simulation Interfaces in a Continuous/Discrete Co-Simulation ToolProceedings of the Seventeenth IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping10.1109/RSP.2006.18(186-192)Online publication date: 14-Jun-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/RSP.2006.18
Bouchhima AChen XPétrot FCesário WJerraya AWolf W(2005)A unified HW/SW interface model to remove discontinuities between HW and SW designProceedings of the 5th ACM international conference on Embedded software10.1145/1086228.1086258(159-163)Online publication date: 18-Sep-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1086228.1086258

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