Platform and architecture adequacy in SoC envirennement: a case study

This work aims to compare several tools and SoC platforms according to the following key parameters: FPGA architecture, coprocessor and accelerator integration, RTOS and HW-SW refinement tools. These key parameters are required to select a flexible and efficient SoC Platform (and the associated tools) in order to implement an efficient PACM (Processor - Accelerator Coprocessor - Memory) architecture model A case study for the PACM architecture model has been targeted in order to validate proposed key parameters. Four Platforms were candidate to implement the PACM architecture model. Finally, a Alios development kit (Quartus, SOPC Builder and STRATIX device) is used as a protoyping platform for PACM architecture and a shading algorithm for 3D image treatment was implemented as an application to prove the SoC platform adequacy with our PACM architecture model.