A simulation platform for reconfigurable processor

A clock-accurate simulation platform is proposed for performance evaluation of reconfigurable processor with the characteristics of flexible interconnection, expandability and dense computational. The simulation platform is set up based on three functional level software architecture, which contains several functional modules such as flexible interconnection module, ISS and test module, etc. With these highly decoupled system functional modules, the simulation platform can quickly form reconfigurable processor evaluation model. The communication port and channel mechanism can support efficiently performance simulation for reconfigurable processor as well as debug and tracing mechanism. A reconfigurable processor with 8*9 ALU array is established under the simulation platform and H.264 algorithm is mapped in the reconfigurable processor. Results show that the simulation platform can support the evaluation and simulation of the reconfigurable processor architecture effectively. Copyright ? 2013 Binary Information Press.EI041659-1668