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Networks−on−chip (NoC) are an alternative to alleviate the problems of legacy interconnect fabrics. However, many emerging technology NoC are developed and are now seen as their potential substitutes. In this context, this work introduces how the NoC industry is involved in the NoC technology design−trends and promotion. Secondly, an extensive discussion on the outstanding research problems and challenges...
Embedded System Reconfigurability has begun since few years thanks to the FPGA capabilities. Many approaches and methodologies have been adopted in literature. Several tools were proposed to designers, but a big luck of efficiency has been noticed. So several works studied this concept and still looking for the best tools and flow. This paper presents an overview of Reconfigurability concepts and...
Hardware/Software partitioning presents a critical problem in the co-design methodology. It resides on deciding which processes of the embedded application should be executed on a specific hardware architecture and which ones can be implemented on general purpose processor (software architecture), taking into account a set of constraints. The hardware architecture is selected to increase the embedded...
In the last decade, networks-on-chip (NoC) were proposed as a potential solution to alleviate interconnect challenges posed by bus- or crossbar-based interconnects. In this context, the principal NoC challenges have been for several years on designing reliable and efficient NoC architectures. Today, NoC have found their way on several commercial applications and products indeed, but recently they...
Due to their flexible architecture, lower-cost and faster processing, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) provide the ability to implement a Programmable System-On-Chip (SoPC) on a single FPGA which include one or more hard-core or soft-core microprocessors. The programmable logic fabric of the FPGA can be used to implement complex embedded applications using three design methodologies. The first...
In this paper, an embedded control unit based on the System on Programmable Chip (SoPC) technology is designed, using advanced FPGA chip with embedded processors. Ready to use Intellectual Property (IP) modules including open-source cores are integrated into FPGA in hardware design. Furthermore, a modular idea based on a commercial and open-source Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) is applied to software...
Modern embedded control systems require more performance digital devices to answer their growing complexity. The performances of System on Chip (SoC) and the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) particularly, are increasing continually. Recent FPGA technology makes it possible to include processor cores into the FPGA chip. A high flexibility can be realized for the construction of the control processor...
In this paper, an overview of reconfigurability is presented with some design recommendations. Besides, a design flow of a Reconfigurable System on Chip (RSoC) is studied for an application case: the implementation of two different controllers on Multiprocessor SoC (MPSoC) architecture using the FPGA Virtex-II Pro. A runtime partial reconfiguration is adopted to switch between them. A predictive internal...
FPGA circuits serve as a powerful platform for prototype embedded system design, supporting easy integration and implementation of one or more processors, peripherals and data processing logic in a single configurable chip. In spite of the advantages that FPGAs brings to the implementation of digital controllers, this technology remains often deferred by the control engineer. However, software to...
With the increasing use of Field Programmable gate arrays (FPAGs) platforms in the academic and industrial fields, circuit's vendors and design tools developers have to find innovative methodologies and design techniques to facilitate their exploitation. High Level Synthesis (HLS) technique has gain enough maturity to be considered by hardware engineers and to be kept as a practical solution to accelerate...
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