An object-oriented communication library for hardware-software codesign

Author

Vahid, Frank ; Tauro, Linus

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Riverside, CA, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

24-26 Mar 1997

Firstpage

81

Lastpage

86

Abstract

Implementing communication between hardware and software components can be a time-consuming task. Numerous communication protocols are available, differing greatly in their implementation details. Designers must spend much time focusing on those details. Even when libraries are available to encapsulate communication into C or VHDL routines, these routines are not consistent across protocols, making it difficult to switch to other protocols. We propose an object-oriented communication library, which provides pre-implemented channel-based send/receive communication primitives, allowing easy implementation and seamless migration across protocols and components

Keywords

C language; hardware description languages; high level synthesis; object-oriented programming; protocols; software libraries; C; VHDL; communication protocols; hardware-software codesign; object-oriented communication library; protocols; send receive communication; time-consuming; Access protocols; Computer science; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Message passing; Microcontrollers; Signal processing; Software libraries; Switches; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Hardware/Software Codesign, 1997. (CODES/CASHE '97), Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Braunschweig

ISSN

1092-6100

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7895-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HSC.1997.584583

Filename

584583