Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chips

13.4. Component-Based Design Environment

Figure 13-7 shows an overall view of the ROSES component-based design environment. The initial SoC model is a virtual architecture annotated with configuration parameters. There are three tools for automatic wrapper generation: the co-simulation wrapper generator, the hardware wrapper generator, and the custom OS generator. A thorough explanation of these tools can be found in refs. 548, 575, and 576, respectively; some details are presented in the next subsections.

Figure 13-7. Component-based design environment for MPSoC.

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13.4.1. Hardware Generation

Figure 13-8 shows the detailed ...