Fast timing analysis for hardware-software co-synthesis

At the current time, an iterative approach seems to be best suited for hardware/software partitioning in hardware/software co-synthesis with time constraints. To check the timing constraints, the iteration loop contains a timing analysis. Only computation time-intensive RT-level simulation provides sufficient timing precision for complex processor architectures. We present a hardware/software timing analysis, which comes close to the precision of an RT-level simulation in a fraction of the computation time and, thus, removes a bottleneck from iterative hardware/software co-synthesis. We present some results for our co-synthesis system COSYMA