A unified model for co-simulation and co-synthesis of mixed hardware/software systems

Author

Valderrama, C.A. ; Changuel, A. ; Raghavan, P.V. ; Abid, M. ; Ismail, T. Ben ; Jerraya, A.A.

Author_Institution

Syst. Level Synthesis Group, Inst. Nat. Polytech. de Grenoble, France

fYear

1995

fDate

6-9 Mar 1995

Firstpage

180

Lastpage

184

Abstract

This paper presents a methodology for a unified co-simulation and co-synthesis of hardware-software systems. This approach addresses the modeling of communication between the hardware and software modules at different abstraction levels and for different design tools. The main contribution is the use of a multi-view library concept in order to hide specific hardware/software implementation details and communication schemes. A system is viewed as a set of communicating hardware (VHDL) and software (C) sub-systems. The same C, VHDL descriptions can be used for both co-simulation and hardware-software co-synthesis. This approach is illustrated by an example

Keywords

circuit analysis computing; computer aided software engineering; digital simulation; hardware description languages; logic CAD; protocols; C descriptions; VHDL descriptions; co-simulation; co-synthesis; communication; design tools; hardware modules; mixed hardware/software systems; multi-view library concept; software modules; unified model; Coherence; Communication standards; Computer architecture; Design methodology; Flexible electronics; Hardware; Protocols; Software libraries; Software systems; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

European Design and Test Conference, 1995. ED&TC 1995, Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Paris

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7039-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDTC.1995.470395

Filename

470395