System Level Design of Reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip

可重构SoC设计参考书籍 Reconfigurability is becoming an important part of System-on-Chip (SoC) design to cope with the increasing demands for simultaneous flexibility and computational power. Current hardware/software co-design methodologies provide little support for dealing with the additional design dimension introduced. Further support at the system-level is needed for the identification and modelling of dynamically re-configurable function blocks, for efficient design space exploration, partitioning and mapping, and for performance e valuation. The overhead effects, e.g. context switching and configuration data, should be included in the modelling already at the system-level in order to produce credible information for decision-making. This book focuses on hardware/software co-design applied for reconfigurable SoCs. We discuss exploration of additional requirements due to reconfigurability, repor t extensions t o two C+ + based languages/methodologies, SystemC and OCAPI-XL, to support those requirements, and present results of three case studies in the wireless and multimedia communication domain that were used for the validation of the approaches.