Title :
Hardware-software trade-offs for emulation
Author :
Adé, M. ; Wauters, P. ; Lauwereins, Rudy ; Engels, M. ; Peperstraete, J.A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. Electrotech., Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
Abstract :
The author discuss the hardware versus software trade-offs for the functional and bit-compliant emulation of digital systems. They consider two classes of components: processors (software emulation) and field programmable gate arrays (hardware emulation). In a case study, a neural exclusive-or function is emulated on both platforms. This leeds to the conclusion that many applications will need a heterogeneous emulation environment
Keywords :
field programmable gate arrays; hardware description languages; high level synthesis; multiprocessing systems; neural net architecture; parallel algorithms; parallel architectures; real-time systems; bit-compliant emulation; digital systems; field programmable gate arrays; functional emulation; hardware emulation; hardware-software tradeoffs; heterogeneous emulation environment; microprocessors; multi-DSP; neural exclusive-or function; software emulation; Application software; Computer architecture; Digital systems; Emulation; Engines; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Intrusion detection; Microprocessors; Timing;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI Signal Processing, VI, 1993., [Workshop on]
Conference_Location :
Veldhoven
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0996-0
DOI :
10.1109/VLSISP.1993.404484
