An Evaluation of CoWare Processor Designer for the Design of Embedded Processors

xin_ming_wang

in my opinion, processors, designed with ESL processor design tools such as processor designer, are suitable for implementing processor cores in a multi-core SoC systems. because:

1) peripherals like amba AHB/APB bus, memory controller, JTAG, can come from your previous design or IP vendors.

2) in a multi-core SoC system, introducing an new processor core do not affect much other processor core or peripherals, from the hardware designer's perspective.

3) novel processor core can be quickly designed with ESL processor design tools if these tools can generate RTL implementation and provide all associated facilities like compiler.
And, the optimization of of automatically generated RTL code is not a hard work for a ASIC designer. because you can quickly shrink much the area only by replacing the memory in generated RTL code with  memory from FPGA or IC foundry, for it is the memory who take up much the processor's area.  if the timing is ok, you need not to optimize combinational logic only for area.

ald_syn_cad

Thanks for the opinions!
But let's first try your posted "processor designer 2012.06". If you have read the topic, your posted tool shows CRC error. Can you please reupload it?

mangotango

great doc

mangotango

great post

mangotango

nice post

skjeon78

thank you.

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kankankankan

spauls

thanks