An Heterogeneous Compiler Of Dataflow Programs For Zynq Platforms

In recent years, the number and variety of heterogeneous multiprocessor system-on-chip MPSoCs, such as for instance Zynq platforms, has sensibly increased. However, today all design flow solutions capable of programming the different components of such platforms require to the designer either to modify the software or hardware based designs to obtain higher performance implementations. Thus, the developer needs to either rewrite functional blocks in HDL or to use high-level synthesis of C-like sequential languages with platform locked extensions. In this paper, a compiler infrastructure that takes as input a single behavioral representation, expressed in high-level dataflow RVC-CAL language, is proposed for programming any of the components of heterogeneous Zynq MPSoCs platforms without the need of modifying any line of code on the design.