Applying ESL in A Dual-Core SoC Platform Designing

Abstract

We applied electronic system level design methodology (ESL) in the dual-core system-on-a-chip (SoC) platform designing. It included implementing components at transaction level (TL) using SystemC, adapting a self designed digital signal processor (DSP) into system-level simulators and modeling virtual platform architectures to conduct an experiment to compare inter-process communication (IPC) mechanisms using mailbox and shared memory. We also experimented in applying a new transaction level component (TLC) definition for modeling training and discussed the need for separating transaction passing implementation from computation.