Proceedings of the 15th international symposium on System Synthesis (ISSS '02)
An Object-Oriented Design Process for System-on-Chip Using UML
Kyoto, Japan
October 02-October 04
ISBN: 1-58113-576-9
Tsuneo Nakata, Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Kawasaki 211-8588, Japan
Akio Matsuda, Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Kawasaki 211-8588, Japan
Qiang Zhu, Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Kawasaki 211-8588, Japan
The object-oriented design process has been a hot topic in software development since it will improve product quality and productivity significantly, which is also a major issue in system-on-chip design. In this paper, a design process is proposed for hardware-software heterogeneous systems by reinforcing parallelism, structure, and timing. The management of design abstraction is also introduced for refinement of hardware. UML is used as a modeling language, and the reinforcement above is gracefully integrated into UML by its extensibility mechanism. An example of architecture exploration and performance analysis is illustrated through the application of the process to an image decoding design.
Index Terms:
UML, design process, object-oriented analysis and design, system level design, system level performance evaluation
Citation:
Tsuneo Nakata, Akio Matsuda, Minoru Shoji, Shinya Kuwamura, Qiang Zhu, "An Object-Oriented Design Process for System-on-Chip Using UML," isss, pp.249-254, Proceedings of the 15th international symposium on System Synthesis (ISSS '02), 2002