Event driven design methodology for hardware DSP design
(2003) IASTED International Conference on Circuits, Signals and Systems, 2003 p.25-30- Abstract
- Today's hardware DSP designs, with a composition of hardware in datapath/controller pairs, are becoming increasingly complex to design. It will be argued that hardware DSP architectures can be significantly simplified by distributing the control to the individual pipeline stages and by switching to an event based design methodology. This paper will describe a design methodology for event based DSP hardware designs that utilizes a peer-to-peer symmetric handshaking protocol. It will be shown that due to the symmetric handshaking protocol a rich design space can be obtained by a small number of handshaking circuits. This has been verified by the design of a complete UMTS turbo decoder according to the outlined methodology. The advantages of... (More)
- Today's hardware DSP designs, with a composition of hardware in datapath/controller pairs, are becoming increasingly complex to design. It will be argued that hardware DSP architectures can be significantly simplified by distributing the control to the individual pipeline stages and by switching to an event based design methodology. This paper will describe a design methodology for event based DSP hardware designs that utilizes a peer-to-peer symmetric handshaking protocol. It will be shown that due to the symmetric handshaking protocol a rich design space can be obtained by a small number of handshaking circuits. This has been verified by the design of a complete UMTS turbo decoder according to the outlined methodology. The advantages of the symmetric handshaking protocol as compared to asymmetric protocols (master-slave) is a reduction in the critical wire delay by up to 50% and a larger design space, because the symmetric protocol is less restrictive (Less)
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- author
- Åström, Pontus LU and Nilsson, Peter LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2003
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- asymmetric protocols, UMTS turbo decoder, handshaking circuits, design space, peer-to-peer symmetric handshaking protocol, pipeline stages, datapath/controller pairs, hardware DSP architectures, master-slave, critical wire delay, pipelining, digital signal processing, event based protocol, event driven design methodology, hardware DSP design
- host publication
- Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Circuits, Signals, and Systems
- pages
- 6 pages
- publisher
- ACTA Press
- conference name
- IASTED International Conference on Circuits, Signals and Systems, 2003
- conference location
- Cancun, Mexico
- conference dates
- 2003-05-19 - 2003-05-21
- external identifiers
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- scopus:1542376854
- ISBN
- 0-88986-351-2
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 4b48780e-8df8-426f-a8ff-2bca9f4d123d (old id 612572)
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@inproceedings{4b48780e-8df8-426f-a8ff-2bca9f4d123d, abstract = {{Today's hardware DSP designs, with a composition of hardware in datapath/controller pairs, are becoming increasingly complex to design. It will be argued that hardware DSP architectures can be significantly simplified by distributing the control to the individual pipeline stages and by switching to an event based design methodology. This paper will describe a design methodology for event based DSP hardware designs that utilizes a peer-to-peer symmetric handshaking protocol. It will be shown that due to the symmetric handshaking protocol a rich design space can be obtained by a small number of handshaking circuits. This has been verified by the design of a complete UMTS turbo decoder according to the outlined methodology. The advantages of the symmetric handshaking protocol as compared to asymmetric protocols (master-slave) is a reduction in the critical wire delay by up to 50% and a larger design space, because the symmetric protocol is less restrictive}}, author = {{Åström, Pontus and Nilsson, Peter}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Circuits, Signals, and Systems}}, isbn = {{0-88986-351-2}}, keywords = {{asymmetric protocols; UMTS turbo decoder; handshaking circuits; design space; peer-to-peer symmetric handshaking protocol; pipeline stages; datapath/controller pairs; hardware DSP architectures; master-slave; critical wire delay; pipelining; digital signal processing; event based protocol; event driven design methodology; hardware DSP design}}, language = {{eng}}, pages = {{25--30}}, publisher = {{ACTA Press}}, title = {{Event driven design methodology for hardware DSP design}}, year = {{2003}}, }