Rapid design of specific MPSoC prototype within FPGA

Abstract

This paper presents an idea of automatic generation of SoC architecture from a functional specification. Starting from an application task graph, C code will be generated automatically. Then the user can add the specific code of each task. Compilation rules are used in order to have a correct task graph and c code. Finally, an automatic generation of hardware and software SoC architecture will be down to get a new model prototype of the FPGA based SOC platform. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed idea by the implementation of CAGT software tool which can generate efficient and correct C code from a task graph. The generated code is compliant to the ANSI C standard thus can be accepted by most compilers.