Wrapping of soft intellectual property components for interface-based design using heterogeneous metaprogramming

We discuss the application of heterogeneous metaprogramming (MPG) for the interface-based design, which deals with the synthesis of the communication interfaces between Intellectual Property components (IPs). Heterogeneous MPG is based on the simultaneous usage of a domain language for describing domain functionality and a metalanguage for developing generic components and program generators. We present a design framework based on the MPG techniques. The novelty of our approach is that we apply the concept of heterogeneous MPG for the automatic generation of IP wrappers for communication between the third-party soft IPs systematically. We present a case study for the synthesis of the communication interfaces using a first-in-first-out protocol.