Hardware and software synthesis of heterogeneous systems from dataflow programs

摘要: The new generation of multicore processors and reconfigurable hardware platforms provides a dramatic increase the available parallelism processing capabilities. However, one obstacle for exploiting all promises such is deeply rooted in sequential thinking. programming model does not naturally expose potential that effectively permits to build parallel applications can be efficiently mapped on different kind platforms. A shift paradigmis necessary at levels application development yield portable scalable implementations widest range heterogeneous This paper presents design flow software synthesis systems allowing automatically generate components as well appropriate interfaces, from unique high-level description application, based dataflow paradigm, running onto architectures composed by units processors. Experimental results implementation several video coding algorithms are also provided show effectiveness approach both terms portability scalability.