Retargetable Processor System Integration into Multi-Processor System-on-Chip Platforms

The ever-increasing complexity of modern electronic devices, along with the continually shrinking time-to-market and product lifetimes, poses enormous chip design challenges to meet flexibility, performance, and energy efficiency constraints. As a consequence, the current trend is towards programmable platforms (Multi-Processor System-on-Chip Platforms, MP-SoC), which are tailored to the respective target application. Typically, a new platform is designed by selecting and assembling standard platform elements. However, the best results can only be achieved if the processor cores and the communication modules are also optimized for the target application. Effective exploration is only possible if accurate module simulators are generated automatically based on abstract specifications. In fact, CoWare's BusCompiler allows for generating accurate simulators for communication.