A disciplined approach to the development of platform architectures

David I. August; K. Keutzer; Sharad Malik; A. R. Newton

doi:10.1016/S0026-2692(02)00069-1

A disciplined approach to the development of platform architectures

David I. August, K. Keutzer, Sharad Malik, A. R. Newton

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Abstract

Silicon capability has enabled the embedding of an entire system on a single silicon die. These devices are known as systems-on-a-chip. Currently, the design of these devices is undisciplined, expensive, and risky. One way of amortizing the cost and ameliorating this design risk is to make a single integrated circuit serve multiple applications, and the natural way of enabling this is through end-user programmability. The aim of the MESCAL project, which is the subject of this paper, is to introduce a disciplined approach to producing reusable architectural platforms that can be easily programmed to meet a variety of applications. (MESCAL stands for Modern Embedded Systems, Compilers, Architectures, and Languages.)

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	881-890
Number of pages	10
Journal	Microelectronics Journal
Volume	33
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0026-2692(02)00069-1
State	Published - Nov 2002

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Condensed Matter Physics
Surfaces, Coatings and Films
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

Application specific instruction set processors (ASIPs)
Mescal project
Platform-architecture development
Retargetable compilation

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