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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:
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Software framework
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This framework contains a tool for trace driven application analysis, and
generators for front end and back end compiler, assembler, architecture
simulator and debugger.
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Hardware framework
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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.
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Optimizer
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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