Rapid SoC Prototyping Based on Virtual Multi-Processor Model

To meet both high performance and high energy efficiency, System-on-Chip (SoC) has a heterogenous architecture including many application-specific accelerators. As a design methodology for such heterogeneous SoCs, we propose a rapid SoC prototyping method based on virtual multi-processor model. Starting from a flexible, homogenous multi-processor model, the proposed method iteratively improves the energy efficiency by identifying inefficient portions of the design and replacing them with specialized hardware. Also, we present a SoC design environment Cyneum which we have been developing