Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Rapid System Prototyping, 2004. Proceedings. 15th IEEE International Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2159-2
DOI :
10.1109/IWRSP.2004.1311105
