PSM: An object-oriented synthesis approach to multiprocessor system design

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 83-97

  Hsiung, Pao Ann ^b   Chen, Sao Jie ^a,b   Hu, Tsung Chien ^b   Wang, Shih Chiang ^b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Colored Petri nets; Functional model; Heuristic design space exploration; Multiprocessor synthesis; Object oriented hardware design; Parallel architecture model; Performance synthesis methodology; System level synthesis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PETRI NETS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COLORED PETRI NETS; HEURISTIC DESIGN SPACE EXPLORATION; MULTIPROCESSOR SYNTHESIS; OBJECT ORIENTED SYNTHESIS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURE MODEL; PERFORMANCE SYNTHESIS METHODOLOGY; SYSTEM LEVEL SYNTHESIS;

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030110560     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/92.486083     Document Type: Article

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