TY - GEN
T1 - Using a dataflow abstracted virtual prototype for HdS-design
AU - Ecker, Wolfgang
AU - Heinen, Stefan
AU - Velten, Michael
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The complexity of Hardware-dependent Software (HdS) continuously grows faster than chip complexity since more and more tasks are moved to software. Clearly, the pressure on the development of new methodologies for early validation of HdS increases as well. Existing methods must be continuously improved and new methods must be developed. This is exemplified with an state-of-the-art Transaction Level (TL) model used for firmware development of a productive wireless communication chip. By discussing the strengths and shortcomings of TL modeling we derive a set of requirements for a future modeling paradigm, which led to the new data flow abstraction approach presented in this paper. Experiments showed that we gain up to 10x performance improvement.
AB - The complexity of Hardware-dependent Software (HdS) continuously grows faster than chip complexity since more and more tasks are moved to software. Clearly, the pressure on the development of new methodologies for early validation of HdS increases as well. Existing methods must be continuously improved and new methods must be developed. This is exemplified with an state-of-the-art Transaction Level (TL) model used for firmware development of a productive wireless communication chip. By discussing the strengths and shortcomings of TL modeling we derive a set of requirements for a future modeling paradigm, which led to the new data flow abstraction approach presented in this paper. Experiments showed that we gain up to 10x performance improvement.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=64549108888&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ASPDAC.2009.4796496
DO - 10.1109/ASPDAC.2009.4796496
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:64549108888
SN - 9781424427482
T3 - Proceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC
SP - 293
EP - 300
BT - Proceedings of the ASP-DAC 2009
T2 - Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 2009, ASP-DAC 2009
Y2 - 19 January 2009 through 22 January 2009
ER -