Title :
A development environment for the cosynthesis of embedded software/hardware systems
Author :
Edwards, Martyn ; Forrest, John
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Computation, UMIST, Manchester, UK
fDate :
28 Feb-3 Mar 1994
Abstract :
This paper presents a novel development environment for the design, cosynthesis and performance evaluation of embedded software/hardware systems. System behaviour is defined by a C program, and an interactive profiling tool identifies performance critical regions. The original program is subsequently partitioned into software and hardware modules where a critical region is implemented in custom hardware. The significance of our approach is demonstrated by example systems
Keywords :
development systems; logic CAD; performance evaluation; real-time systems; C program; cosynthesis; development environment; embedded software/hardware systems; hardware modules; interactive profiling tool; performance evaluation; software modules; Application software; Clocks; Coprocessors; Embedded software; Embedded system; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Programmable logic arrays; Software tools; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
European Design and Test Conference, 1994. EDAC, The European Conference on Design Automation. ETC European Test Conference. EUROASIC, The European Event in ASIC Design, Proceedings.
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-5410-4
DOI :
10.1109/EDTC.1994.326834
