@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00013138,
 author = {ANDO, Yuki and SHIBATA, Seiya and HONDA, Shinya and TOMIYAMA, Hiroyuki and TAKADA, Hiroaki},
 issue = {12},
 journal = {IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences},
 month = {Dec},
 note = {We present a hardware sharing method for design space exploration of multi-processor embedded systems. In our prior work, we had developed a system-level design tool named SystemBuilder which automatically synthesizes target implementation of a system from a functional description. In this work, we have extended SystemBuilder so that it can automatically synthesize an area-efficient implementation which shares a hardware module among different applications. With SystemBuilder, designers only need to enable an option in order to share a hardware module. The designers, therefore, can easily explore a design space including hardware sharing in short time. A case study shows the effectiveness of the hardware sharing on design space exploration.},
 pages = {2509--2516},
 title = {Automatic Communication Synthesis with Hardware Sharing for Multi-Processor SoC Design},
 volume = {E93-A},
 year = {2010}
}