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，而应用程序正在设计，以暴露底层算法的固有并行性。传统的处理器和片上通信架构不能很好地扩展嵌入式应用的严格性能和功耗要求。芯片设计的当前趋势表明，芯片上的晶体管数量越来越多，各种技术的芯片上可用性也越来越大。这些趋势使得能够制造与集成光通信架构互连的多处理器芯片。该技术有望创建提供高性能和低功耗的系统。然而，这种系统的手动设计是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.