Advanced concurrent design environment for multimedia system LSIs

Hiroe Iwasaki; Katsuyuki Ochiai; Jiro Naganuma; Makoto Endo; Takeshi Ogura

doi:10.1002/scj.10004

Advanced concurrent design environment for multimedia system LSIs

Hiroe Iwasaki, Katsuyuki Ochiai, Jiro Naganuma, Makoto Endo, Takeshi Ogura

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Abstract

This paper proposes a high-speed software-based platform for embedded software and evaluates its benefits on a commercial MPEG-2 video encoder LSI with HDTV scalability. The platform is written in C/C++ languages without any hardware description languages (HDLs) for high-speed simulation. This platform is applicable before writing up complete HDLs. The simulation speed is very fast and is more than 600 times faster than compiled HDL simulators using RTL description. Fifty percent of the bugs in the final embedded software were located efficiently and quickly, and the design turn-around time was shortened by more than 25%. This platform provides sufficient performance and capability for validating practical embedded software.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	72-80
Number of pages	9
Journal	Systems and Computers in Japan
Volume	33
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/scj.10004
Publication status	Published - 2002 Dec
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Embedded software
Embedded system LSI
HW/SW co-simulation
MPEG-2 video encoder LSI
Validation
VLSI

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
Information Systems
Hardware and Architecture
Computational Theory and Mathematics

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