Automatic generation of application-specific architectures for heterogeneous multiprocessor system-on-chip

TLDR

The paper proposes a design flow to automatically generate application‑specific multiprocessor architectures. The flow extracts architectural parameters from a high‑level specification, instantiates processors, memory modules, and communication networks, and automatically generates a communication coprocessor tailored to the application. Experiments on two system examples demonstrate the effectiveness of the design flow.

Abstract

We present a design flow for the generation of application-specific multiprocessor architectures. In the flow, architectural parameters are first extracted from a high-level system specification. Parameters are used to instantiate architectural components, such as processors, memory modules and communication networks. The flow includes the automatic generation of communication coprocessor that adapts the processor to the communication network in an application-specific way. Experiments with two system examples show the effectiveness of the presented design flow.