Exploiting intellectual properties in ASIP designs for embedded DSP software

The growing requirements on the correct design of a high-performance system in a short time force us to use IP's in many designs. In this paper, we propose a new approach to select the optimal set of IPs and interfaces to make the application program meet the performance constraints in ASIP designs. The proposed approach selects IPs with considering interfaces and supports concurrent execution of parts of task in kernel as software code with others in IPs, while the previous state-of-the-art approaches do not consider IPs and interfaces simultaneously and cannot support the concurrent execution. The experimental results on real applications show that the proposed approach is effective in making application programs meet the performance constraints using IPs