UML-Based co-design framework for body sensor network applications

Ph.DDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPH

16th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL 2006), Madrid, Spain AUTOMATION OF IP CORE INTERFACE GENERATION FOR RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING

Pre-designed IP cores for FPGAs represent a huge intellectual and financial wealth that must be leveraged by any high-level tool targeting reconfigurable platforms. In this paper we describe a technique that automates the generation of IP core interfaces allowing these to be used as C functions transparently from within C source codes using a reconfigurable computing compiler. We also show how this same tool can be used to support run-time reconfiguration on FPGAs by generating a common wrapper that interfaces to multiple cores. 1