Automatic Generation of Communication Architectures

In this paper, we propose automatic generation of bus-based communication architectures from an abstract model reflecting only the communication topology. Tasks include protocol selection for each bus, master/slave assignment for each component, interrupt handling and addressing for synchronization between components, and arbitration to resolve multiple accesses on a bus. We present a set of experimental results demonstrating how the proposed approach works on typical system designs. Experimental results show the benefits of our methodology and demonstrate the effectiveness of automatic model generation for communication design.