Top Down Approach: SIMULINK Mixed Hardware / Software Design
System-level design methodologies have been introduced as a solution to handle the design complexity of mixed Hardware / Software systems. In this paper we describe a system-level design flow starting from Simulink specification, focusing on concurrent hardware and software design and verification at four different abstraction levels: System Simulink model, Transaction Simulink model, Macro architecture, and micro architecture. We used the MP3 CodeC application, to validate our approach and methodology.
Keywords: Design methodology, system level, TLM, RTL, signal processing, software and hardware synthesis, MPSoC.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Youssef Atat
Youssef Atat received the engineer degree in computer communication engineering from the Lebanese University, Beirut Lebanon in 2002, and the MS degree in electronics from the Institut National des Sciences Appliqués (INSA), Rennes, France in 2003, and PHD Degree in microelectronic from the “Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble” (INPG), Grenoble, France, in 2007. Since 2008 he is an associate professor at the Lebanese University and on the head of regional center of the “Institut des Sciences Appliquées et économies” (ISAE-Lebanon) attached to the “Conservatoire National des arts et des métiers” (CNAM-Paris). His current research interests include system-on-chip design methodology, especially, design and exploration of application-specific multiprocessor architectures, performance estimation, and on-chip communication architectures.
Mostafa Rizk
received the two Masters degrees in Biomedical and electronics from the Lebanese University Beirut, Lebanon in 2009 and 2010 respectively. He is with the electronics department of the telecom Brest, France. His current research interests are design of application-specific multiprocessor architectures, Non instruction Set Computer, performance, estimation.
Youssef Atat
Youssef Atat received the engineer degree in computer communication engineering from the Lebanese University, Beirut Lebanon in 2002, and the MS degree in electronics from the Institut National des Sciences Appliqués (INSA), Rennes, France in 2003, and PHD Degree in microelectronic from the “Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble” (INPG), Grenoble, France, in 2007. Since 2008 he is an associate professor at the Lebanese University and on the head of regional center of the “Institut des Sciences Appliquées et économies” (ISAE-Lebanon) attached to the “Conservatoire National des arts et des métiers” (CNAM-Paris). His current research interests include system-on-chip design methodology, especially, design and exploration of application-specific multiprocessor architectures, performance estimation, and on-chip communication architectures.
Mostafa Rizk
received the two Masters degrees in Biomedical and electronics from the Lebanese University Beirut, Lebanon in 2009 and 2010 respectively. He is with the electronics department of the telecom Brest, France. His current research interests are design of application-specific multiprocessor architectures, Non instruction Set Computer, performance, estimation.
