An integrated environment for concurrent development of a pixel processor ASIC and application software

Author

Roth, Raymond ; Watkins, John ; Hsieh, Michael ; Radke, William ; Hejna, Donald ; Tom, Richard ; Kim, Byung

Author_Institution

Sun Microsyst. Comput. Corp., Mountain View, CA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

3-6 Oct 1993

Firstpage

116

Lastpage

125

Abstract

The paper describes a unique environment for concurrent software and hardware development of a memory controller ASIC containing an embedded graphics pixel processor. The center of this customized environment is a behavioral simulator which is used for both hardware verification and software development. The software and hardware are developed concurrently. The behavioral simulator enforces consistent agreement between software expectation and hardware functionality

Keywords

application specific integrated circuits; computer graphic equipment; development systems; digital simulation; memory architecture; programming; programming environments; behavioral simulator; concurrent development; customized environment; embedded graphics pixel processor; hardware development; hardware functionality; hardware verification; integrated environment; memory controller ASIC; pixel processor ASIC; software development; software expectation; Acceleration; Application software; Application specific integrated circuits; Graphics; Hardware; Memory management; Random access memory; System software; Vector processors; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors, 1993. ICCD '93. Proceedings., 1993 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4230-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCD.1993.393395

Filename

393395