A case study of hardware and software synthesis in ForSyDe

Author

Lu, Zhonghai ; Sander, Lngo ; Jantsch, Axel

Author_Institution

R. Inst. of Technol., Stockholm, Sweden

fYear

2002

fDate

2-4 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

86

Lastpage

91

Abstract

ForSyDe (FORmal SYstem DEsign) is a methodology which addresses the design of SoC applications which may contain control as well as data flow dominated parts. Starting with a formal system specification, which captures the functionality of the system, it provides refinement methods inside the functional domain to transform the abstract specification into an efficient implementation model which serves as a starting point for synthesis into hardware and software. In this paper we illustrate with a case study of a digital equalizer how a ForSyDe model can be synthesized into a hardware, a software or a combined hardware/software implementation.

Keywords

hardware-software codesign; system-on-chip; ForSyDe; SoC; SoC applications; abstract specification; digital equalizer; hardware synthesis; hardware/software implementation; software synthesis; Computer aided software engineering; Design automation; Design methodology; Digital signal processing; Equalizers; Hardware; Integrated circuit modeling; Integrated circuit synthesis; Mathematical model; System-on-a-chip;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Synthesis, 2002. 15th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kyoto, Japan

Print_ISBN

1-58113-576-9

Type

conf

Filename

1227157