A disciplined approach to the development of platform architectures |
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Authors: | D.I. August A.R. Newton |
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Affiliation: | a University of Princeton, Princeton, NJ, USA b University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA |
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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.) |
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Keywords: | Platform-architecture development Retargetable compilation Application specific instruction set processors (ASIPs) Mescal project |
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