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Complex SoC and platform-based designs require integration of configurable IP cores from multiple sources. Even automatic compilation flows from a high-level description to HW/SW systems can benefit from having access to reusable sophisticated hand-optimized IP blocks. This is especially the case in the domain of reconfigurable computers, which offer core integration directly into the custom datapath. This work proposes the Parametric C Interface For IP Cores (PaCIFIC) to allow the automatic embedding of complex IP cores in a high-level language such as C. PaCIFIC provides for formal description of IP behavior and interface characteristics as well as an idiomatic programming style natural for SW developers.
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Lange, H., Koch, A. (2004). HW/SW Co-design by Automatic Embedding of Complex IP Cores. In: Becker, J., Platzner, M., Vernalde, S. (eds) Field Programmable Logic and Application. FPL 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3203. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30117-2_69
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