TY - JOUR AU - Barbieri, Ivano AU - Bariani, Massimo AU - Scotto, Alessandro AU - Raggio, Marco PY - 2005 DA - 2005/09/21 TI - Multimedia Terminal System-on-Chip Design and Simulation JO - EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing SP - 650749 VL - 2005 IS - 16 AB - This paper proposes a design approach based on integrated architectural and system-on-chip (SoC) simulations. The main idea is to have an efficient framework for the design and the evaluation of multimedia terminals, allowing a fast system simulation with a definable degree of accuracy. The design approach includes the simulation of very long instruction word (VLIW) digital signal processors (DSPs), the utilization of a device multiplexing the media streams, and the emulation of the real-time media acquisition. This methodology allows the evaluation of both the multimedia algorithm implementations and the hardware platform, giving feedback on the complete SoC including the interaction between modules and conflicts in accessing either the bus or shared resources. An instruction set architecture (ISA) simulator and an SoC simulation environment compose the integrated framework. In order to validate this approach, the evaluation of an audio-video multiprocessor terminal is presented, and the complete simulation test results are reported. SN - 1687-6180 UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/ASP.2005.2694 DO - 10.1155/ASP.2005.2694 ID - Barbieri2005 ER -