Automatic generation of virtual prototypes

Author

Belanovic, P. ; Holzer, M. ; Knerr, B. ; Rupp, M. ; Sauzon, G.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Commun. & RF Eng., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Austria

fYear

2004

fDate

28-30 June 2004

Firstpage

114

Lastpage

118

Abstract

Virtual prototyping as an embedded system design technique has the potential to significantly increase efficiency of the design process. An environment for automatic generation of virtual prototypes (VPs) directly from algorithmic-level descriptions is presented here. It is implemented as part of a unified design methodology and produces VSIA compliant VPs. When applied to an industrial design flow of a UMTS receiver, this environment for automatic generation of VPs produced significant speedups over traditional manual VP creation, with savings in the order of hundreds to thousands of person-hours.

Keywords

computational complexity; electronic design automation; rapid prototyping (industrial); virtual prototyping; UMTS receiver; VSIA compliant; algorithmic-level descriptions; automatic generation; embedded system design; industrial design flow; unified design; virtual prototypes; virtual prototyping; Algorithm design and analysis; Design methodology; Embedded system; Hardware; Partitioning algorithms; Process design; Productivity; Signal processing algorithms; Software prototyping; Virtual prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Rapid System Prototyping, 2004. Proceedings. 15th IEEE International Workshop on

ISSN

1074-6005

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2159-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWRSP.2004.1311105

Filename

1311105