Hardware /Software Codesign of Image Processing Applications Using Transaction Level Modeling

Transaction level modeling (TLM) and component based software development approaches accelerate the process of an embedded system design and simulation and hence improve the overall productivity. On the other hand, system level design languages facilitate the fast hardware synthesis at behavioral level of abstraction. In this paper, we introduce an approach for hardware/software codesign of image processing application that uses TLM and component based software design approaches along with HW synthesis using SystemC to accelerate system design and verification process. Our experiments performed over an image processing application shows the effectiveness of our methodology.