Multi-granularity NoC simulation framework for early phase exploration of SDR hardware platforms

Zompakis, N; Trautmann, M; Bartzas, A; Mamagkakis, S; Soudris, D; Van Der Perre, L; Catthoor, F

dc.contributor.author	Zompakis, N	en
dc.contributor.author	Trautmann, M	en
dc.contributor.author	Bartzas, A	en
dc.contributor.author	Mamagkakis, S	en
dc.contributor.author	Soudris, D	en
dc.contributor.author	Van Der Perre, L	en
dc.contributor.author	Catthoor, F	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T02:52:42Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T02:52:42Z
dc.date.issued	2010	en
dc.identifier.issn	03029743	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/36012
dc.subject	MIMO	en
dc.subject	Multi-granularity	en
dc.subject	NoC	en
dc.subject	Platforms	en
dc.subject	SDR	en
dc.subject.other	Communication mode	en
dc.subject.other	Configuration parameters	en
dc.subject.other	Cycle accurate	en
dc.subject.other	Cycle-accurate simulation	en
dc.subject.other	Early design phase	en
dc.subject.other	Execution time	en
dc.subject.other	Fourth generation wireless	en
dc.subject.other	Hardware platform	en
dc.subject.other	Hardware resources	en
dc.subject.other	Hardware/software	en
dc.subject.other	Multi-granularity	en
dc.subject.other	Network on chip	en
dc.subject.other	Resource request	en
dc.subject.other	SDR terminals	en
dc.subject.other	Simulation environment	en
dc.subject.other	Simulation framework	en
dc.subject.other	Simulation result	en
dc.subject.other	Software-defined radios	en
dc.subject.other	System bandwidth	en
dc.subject.other	System levels	en
dc.subject.other	SystemC	en
dc.subject.other	Virtual architecture	en
dc.subject.other	Design	en
dc.subject.other	Embedded systems	en
dc.subject.other	Simulators	en
dc.subject.other	Technical presentations	en
dc.subject.other	Time measurement	en
dc.subject.other	Timing circuits	en
dc.subject.other	VLSI circuits	en
dc.subject.other	Wireless networks	en
dc.subject.other	Information retrieval	en
dc.title	Multi-granularity NoC simulation framework for early phase exploration of SDR hardware platforms	en
heal.type	conferenceItem	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1007/978-3-642-11802-9_21	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11802-9_21	en
heal.publicationDate	2010	en
heal.abstract	Software-defined radio (SDR) terminals are critical to enable concrete and consecutive inter-working between fourth generation wireless access systems or communication modes. The next generation of SDR terminals is intended to have heavy hardware resource requirements and switching between them will introduce dynamism in respect with timing and size of resource requests. This paper presents a system-level framework which combines a cycle-accurate NoC (Network-on-Chip) simulation environment with a pre-existing SDR simulator, thus enabling a cycle accurate simulation and exploration of such complex, dynamic hardware/software SDR designs. The platform specifications are represented as a virtual architecture by a coarse-grain simulator described in SystemC that includes a set of configuration parameters. The key of our approach is that our simulator environment provides automatic wrapper tools able to explore the SDR platform parameters and simultaneously transmit the interconnection traffic in a cycle-accurate NoC simulator giving the opportunity to examine the impact of different topologies at the system bandwidth at execution time. Our simulation results have shown that we can achieve remarkable improvement at the final performance (65-40%) choosing at the early design phase specific platform configurations. © 2010 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.	en
heal.journalName	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1007/978-3-642-11802-9_21	en
dc.identifier.volume	5953 LNCS	en
dc.identifier.spage	165	en
dc.identifier.epage	174	en