Synthesis and Mapping for Application-Specific Processor Networks

提案ID: 0903541 PI名称：Cong， Jason institute .：加州大学洛杉矶分校标题：特定应用处理器网络的综合与映射摘要：电子工业在设计复杂性和生产力方面面临着巨大的挑战。今天好吗?英特尔复杂的片上系统（SOC）设计有超过10亿个晶体管，需要许多人的时间来设计，导致设计成本高得令人望而却步。该项目的目标是显著提高电子系统的设计效率，以实现成本效益创新。在本提案中，pi探索了使用特定应用程序处理器集合作为设计和实现特定领域SOC的通用平台的概念，该SOC可用于公共领域中的多个应用程序，以分摊设计时间和成本。这样的平台可以由许多固定的和可定制的处理器、定制的逻辑块、现场可编程逻辑块和可定制的片上网络组成。有效地，pi将基于单元的标准集成电路设计方法扩展到基于处理器的嵌入式系统设计方法。所提出的设计方法将显著提高设计抽象水平，进而提高电子设计的生产率和成本，并实现成本效益创新。这个项目还包括研究和教育的整合。该项目将通过新课程和个人学习向研究生和高年级本科生展示本项目的新概念和研究成果。综合研究和教育项目还旨在通过与其他关注多样性的校园组织（如加州大学洛杉矶分校工程与多样性卓越中心和女工程师协会）合作，吸引代表性不足的学生。

Proposal ID: 0903541 PI name: Cong, Jason Inst.:U of Cal Los Angeles Title: Synthesis and Mapping for Application-Specific Processor NetworksAbstract:The electronic industry is facing great challenge in terms of design complexity and productivity. Today?s complex system-on-a-chip (SOC) design has over one billion transistors and requires many man-years to design, resulting prohibitively high design cost. The goal of this project is to significantly improve the design productivity for electronic systems to enable cost-efficient innovation. In this proposal the PIs explore the concept of using a collection of application-specific processors as a general platform for design and implementation of a domain-specific SOC which can be used for multiple applications in a common domain to amortize the design time and cost. Such a platform may consist of a number of fixed and customizable processors, customized logic blocks, field-programmable logic blocks, and a customizable network-on-chip. Effectively, the PIs are extending the standard cell-based methodology for application-specific integrated circuit designs to the application-specific processor-based design methodology for embedded system designs. The proposed design methodology will significantly raise the level of design abstraction, in turn improve the electronic design productivity and cost, and enable cost-efficient innovation. This project also includes the integration of research and education ? the project will expose the new concepts and research results from this project to graduate students and upper-division undergraduate students via new courses and individual studies. The integrated research and education program is also designed to attract underrepresented students via partnership with other campus organizations focused on diversity, such as the UCLA Center for Excellence in Engineering and Diversity and the Society of Woman Engineers.