DSX ConceptsΒΆ
DSX is a hardware/software codesign tool which helps building, testing, evaluating and optimizing a System-on-Chip.
Application defines the purpose, and sets the performance goals for the system.
DSX splits the description of the system in four parts:
- Design of the abstract Application through a Task and Communication Graph (Tcg),
- Design of the Tasks and one or more Task implementations per task,
- Design of the Hardware Platform netlist,
- Mapping of the application on the platform.
From these descriptions, DSX generates:
- A SystemC virtual prototype corresponding to the user’s netlist,
containing:
- Stock SoCLib components,
- Users’ own hardware coprocessors;
- A binary firmware image to load in the virtual prototype containing:
- A dedicated MutekH kernel build,
- Some software-support glue code and middleware,
- Users’ own software task code.
- SystemC prototype and the firmware constitute a complete System-on-Chip.
The DSX design flow.