SOC and RTOS: Managing IPs and Tasks Communications

摘要

We present in this paper a development method for SOC platforms associating a processor running a RTOS and hardware IP's. This method is based on encapsulating IP's for unifying communications and resource sharing between software and hardware tasks. A hardware wrapper that abstracts the IP behaviours through a standard interface and a software encapsulation (the IP Alter Ego) thereby giving access to the Operating System functions are presented. Details about implementing this model on two different FPGA platforms are given.