Synthesis of Heterogeneous Multi Processor System-on-Chip with Optical Interconnect

嵌入式系统的市场正在迅速增长，同时应用程序正在被设计成暴露底层算法的内在并行性。传统的处理器和片上通信体系结构不能很好地满足嵌入式应用对性能和功耗的严格要求。目前芯片设计的趋势表明，芯片上的晶体管数量不断增加，各种技术在芯片上的可用性也越来越高。这些趋势使多处理器芯片的制造成为可能，这些芯片与集成的光通信架构互连。这项技术有望创造出高性能、低功耗的系统。然而，这种系统的手工设计是一个耗时且容易出错的过程，从而对这种系统的成本和质量产生负面影响。

The market for embedded systems is growing rapidly while applications are being designed to expose the inherent parallelism of the underlying algorithms. Conventional processors and on-chip communication architectures do not scale well with the stringent performance and power requirements of embedded applications. Current trends in chip design indicate increasing number of transistors on chip and on-chip availability of diverse technologies. These trends have enabled the fabrication of multi-processor chips interconnected with integrated optical communication architectures. This technology promises to create systems that provide high performance and low power consumption. However, the manual design of such systems is a time consuming and error prone process, thereby negatively impacting the cost and quality of such systems.