A decade of hardware/ software codesign

A Decade of Hardware/Software Codesign

38 Computer A Decade of Hardware/ Software Codesign T he term hardware/software codesign surfaced in the early 1990s to describe a con-fluence of problems in integrated circuit (IC) design. Microprocessors had been in use for over a decade at that point, but microprocessor-based systems were almost exclusively board-level systems. A class of designers who were largely separate from IC designers...

Hardware/Software Codesign Overview

The Hardware/Software Codesign Overview module is intended to introduce the hardware/software codesign to the practicing design, software, and systems engineers, and to the senior undergraduate or first year graduate student. The module provides key codesign concepts and attempts to show the benefits of the codesign approach over the current design process. The module consists of eight sections...

Hardware / Software Codesign Appnote

High integrity hardware-software codesign

Programmable logic devices (PLDs) are increasing in complexity and speed, and are being used as important components in safety-critical systems. Methods for developing high-integrity software for these systems are well-known, but this is not true for programmable logic. We propose a process for developing a system incorporating software and PLDs, suitable for safety critical systems of the high...

Timing-Driven Hardware-Software Codesign

In this paper, we examine the emerging area of timing-driven hardware-software codesign. This area builds upon advances in embedded system design and real-time computing to drive the system design process. Timing driven codesign techniques are particularly relevant to the design of on-chip microelectronic systems. Accurate modeling and use of timing information at multiple levels of design abst...