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This chapter will guide you through the process of designing a virtual platform. We start with a very simple Hello World example and expand it to a dual-core platform to serve as a basis for a MP3 decoder platform that is explained and implemented in the second part of the chapter. The MP3 decoder design starts with a profilling as the basis for a hardware-software partition, which guided us to create two IPs and integrated them to the rest of the software. At the end of the chapter, we discuss how the software could be partitioned to cope with the designed platform.
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A reentrant function is a function that can be called more than once at the same time, providing the expected behavior. Usually, this is accomplishing by not using any global buffer.
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This implementation is considered a base implementation with focus on readability instead of speed.
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Please, use a big input file to avoid interference from your environment.
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The base address removal could be done in the router also. Sometimes it is easier to do there and also make the platform more flexible.
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Azevedo, R., Rigo, S., Albertini, B. (2011). Building Platform Models with SystemC. In: Rigo, S., Azevedo, R., Santos, L. (eds) Electronic System Level Design. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9940-3_5
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