HW-SW CO-DESIGN OF MPSOC USING FGPA IP CORES

The new design technologies of multiprocessor systems on chip based on FPGAs and IP blocks, make possible the development of optimized devices in terms of performance, power consumption and cost. Flexibility offered by these new design tools allow design space exploration to search for the most effective implementations. Thus, in this paper, we performed a research on these technologies and we have proposed a hardware / software co-design model for developing applications on multiprocessor systems on chip based on FPGA IP cores. The experimental results were validated with an application for filtering images, implemented on a multiprocessor system using the development kit Xilinx XUP Virtex 5 and Xilinx EDK application software