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Addressing the system-on-a-chip interconnect woes through communication-based design

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DAC '01: Proceedings of the 38th annual Design Automation Conference

Pages 667 - 672

https://doi.org/10.1145/378239.379045

Published: 22 June 2001 Publication History

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Communication-based design represents a formal method approach to of system-on-a-chip design that considers communication between components as important as the computations they perform. “Our network-on-chip&rdqo ; approach partitions the communication into layers to maximize reuse and provide a programmer with an abstraction of the underlying communication framework. This layered approach is cast in the structure advocated by the OSI Reference network model and is demonstrated with a reconfigurable DSP example. The Metropolis methodology of deriving layers through a sequence of successive adaptation steps between incompatible behaviors refinement of communication is illustrated through the Intercom a design example. In another approach, MESCAL provides a designer with tools for a correct-by-construction protocol stack.

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