Hardware/Software Co-Synthesis Of An Industrial Embedded Microcontroller

• Main Authors: Wang, Yu-Min, 王裕閔
• Other Authors: Huang, Ing-Jer
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 1997
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/90861545925801770342

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 資訊工程研究所 === 85 === 　　Due to the time-to-market pressure and the lack of appropriate CAD tools and design methodology, designers of industrial embedded microcontrollers often miss the opportunity to systematically analyze the architectural properties of their designs and explore hardware and software alternatives for future upgrades. To satisfy the industrial request, we develop the hardware/software co-synthesis tool (PIPER-II) for microcontrollers. The synthesis tool accepts as input the instruction set architecture (behavioral) specification, and produces as outputs the pipeline RTL designs which can be synthesized by RT level synthesis tools such as SYNOPSYS Design CompilerTM to continue the synthesis flow. We shows how ours synthesis approach synthesize the microcontrollers and help to evaluate the design quality, analyze the architectural properties and explore possible architectural improvements and their impacts in both hardware and software.