Fast Prototyping of POSIX Based Applications on a Multiprocessor SoC Architecture: "Hardware-Dependent Software Oriented Approach"

A. Bouchhima (1) , A.A. Jerraya (1) , T. Rousseau (1) , B. Senouci (1)

1 TIMA - Techniques de l'Informatique et de la Microélectronique pour l'Architecture des systèmes intégrés

This paper describes our experience in using the POSIX API standard for MPSoC applications prototyping on a reconfigurable multiprocessor ARM architecture. Applications running on this platform use a Symmetric Multiprocessor (SMP) POSIX compliant kernel named MUTEK. This work allows us to investigate and understand the complexities of the Hardware/Software interface design process. We propose a new generic MPSoC prototyping flow based on the POSIX standard, which allows fast prototyping of POSIX threads based applications.

Domaines: Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique

A. Bouchhima, A.A. Jerraya, T. Rousseau, B. Senouci. Fast Prototyping of POSIX Based Applications on a Multiprocessor SoC Architecture: "Hardware-Dependent Software Oriented Approach". 2006, pp.69-75, ⟨10.1109/RSP.2006.17⟩. ⟨hal-00103753⟩