A simulation environment for hardware-software codesign

Author

Coumeri, Sari L. ; Thomas, Donald E.

Author_Institution

Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

2-4 Oct 1995

Firstpage

58

Lastpage

63

Abstract

Our goal is to create a simulation environment for hardware-software codesign. It is important to perform simulation of the hardware/software system at various stages of the codesign process. In our environment the hardware and software are viewed as two independent processes in which the hardware is described in a hardware description language and the software is written in a programming language. The processes can be placed on separate machines and run in parallel. Analysis of the environment has shown that significant simulation speed-ups can be achieved if a high degree of parallelism exists between the hardware and software and if there is a sufficient amount of computational CPU time in the software process

Keywords

digital simulation; hardware description languages; logic design; programming environments; systems analysis; computational CPU time; hardware description language; hardware-software codesign; independent processes; programming language; simulation environment; software process; Analytical models; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer languages; Concurrent computing; Costs; Hardware; Parallel processing; Software systems; Uninterruptible power systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors, 1995. ICCD '95. Proceedings., 1995 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

ISSN

1063-6404

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7165-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCD.1995.528791

Filename

528791