Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chips

13.6. Conclusions

This chapter presented a summary of a high-level component-based methodology and design environment for application-specific multiprocessor SoC architectures. The system specification is a virtual architecture annotated with configuration parameters. The ROSES component-based design environment has automatic wrapper-generation tools able to synthesize hardware interfaces, device drivers, and OS that implement a high-level communication API. Results show that wrappers generated automatically by these tools have performances close to the commercial/handcrafted equivalents. The key issues are:

1. Automatic wrapper generation eliminates most errors caused by manually managing all details of a multiprocessor SoC architecture and associated ...