Automatic generation of application-specific systems based on a micro-programmed Java core

Summary, in English

This paper describes a co-design based approach for automatic generation of application specific systems, suitable for FPGA-centric embedded applications. The approach augments a processor core with hardware accelerators extracted automatically from a high-level specification (Java) of the application, to obtain a custom system, optimised for the target application. We advocate herein the use of a micro-programmed core as the basis for system generation in order to hide the hardware access operations in the micro-code, while conserving the core data-path (and clock frequency). To prove the feasibility of our approach, we also present an implementation based on a modified version of the Java Optimized Processor soft core on a Xilinx Virtex-II FPGA. Copyright 2005 ACM.

• Författare: Flavius Gruian; Per Andersson; Krzysztof Kuchcinski; M Schoeberl
• Avdelning/ar: Institutionen för datavetenskap; Parallella System
• Publiceringsår: 2005
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 879-884
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
• Volym: 1
• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1066677.1066877
• Dokumenttyp: Konferensbidrag
• Förlag: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Ämne: Computer Science
• Nyckelord: System-on-chip; Data-path; Application-specific systems; Co-design
• Conference name: 20th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
• Conference date: 2005-03-13 - 2005-03-17
• Conference place: Santa Fe, NM, United States
• Status: Published
• Forskningsgrupp: ESDLAB