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MOVE framework


The ultimate goal of the MOVE project is to establish a framework for the semi-automatic generation of application (domain) specific MOVE processors. The structure of this framework is depicted the figure below.

The framework consists of three main components:

Software framework
This framework contains a tool for trace driven application analysis, and generators for front end and back end compiler, assembler, architecture simulator and debugger.
Hardware framework
The main part of this framework is a VLSI (CMOS) processor generator, build on top of a library of generic VLSI components. Further it should be able to answer questions about needed VLSI area, critical circuit time, and power consumption.
Optimizer
This tool interacts with the user and the other components. It coordinates the synthesis process. Iteratively the architecture parameter values are determined based on user constraints, and on information from the former components.
Short overviews of these components are presented in the next sections: Software framework

Hardware framework

Optimizer




Last modified on April 21st, 1999 by Andrea Cilio, email A.Cilio@its.tudelft.nl