With growing system complexities, system-level communication design is becoming increasingly important and advanced, network-oriented communication architectures become necessary. In this paper, we extend previous work on automatic communication refinement to support nontraditional, network-oriented architectures beyond a single bus. From an abstract description of the desired communication channels, the refinement tools automatically generate executable models and implementations of the system communication at various levels of abstraction. Experimental results show that significant productivity gains can be achieved, demonstrating the effectiveness of the approach for rapid, early communication design space exploration.
For example, REF presents a methodology to automatically generate models and implementations of network-oriented SoC models.
Automatic network generation for system-on-chip communication design
CODES+ISSS '05
Computer Science