Title :
CoWare-a design environment for heterogeneous hardware/software systems
Author :
Rompaey, Karl Van ; Verkest, Diederik ; Bolsens, Ivo ; Man, Hugo De
Author_Institution :
IMEC, Heverlee, Belgium
Abstract :
The design problems encountered when designing heterogeneous systems are studied and solutions to these problems are proposed. It is shown why a single heterogeneous specification method ranging from concept to architecture is required and why it should cover issues as modularity design for reuse, reuse of designs and reuse of design environments. A heterogeneous system design environment based on cospecification, cosimulation and cosynthesis is proposed and its application is illustrated by means of a spread spectrum based pager system
Keywords :
formal specification; spread spectrum communication; systems analysis; telecommunication computing; CoWare; cosimulation; cospecification; cosynthesis; design environment; design problems; heterogeneous hardware/software systems; heterogeneous system design environment; modularity design for reuse; single heterogeneous specification method; spread spectrum based pager system; Communication system control; Concurrent computing; Control systems; Decoding; Design methodology; Digital signal processing; Hardware; Protocols; Software systems; Spread spectrum communication;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference, 1996, with EURO-VHDL '96 and Exhibition, Proceedings EURO-DAC '96, European
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7573-X
DOI :
10.1109/EURDAC.1996.558213
