Model refinement for hardware-software codesign

A unified model for hardware/software codesign

Embedded systems are almost always built with parts implemented in both hardware and software. Market forces encourage such systems to be developed with different hardware-software decompositions to meet different points on the priceperformance-power curve. Current design methodologies make the exploration of different hardware-software decompositions difficult because such exploration is both ...

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

Concepts for Model Compilation in Hardware/Software Codesign

The model-based design process has established itself in the domain of hardware/software codesign. It has been applied to many complex embedded systems. Nevertheless we still observe a discontinuity in the design process when the system model evolves into its eventual implementation. We present here the concepts for a model compiler which addresses this model continuity problem. In addition, a ...

Processor Modeling for Hardware Software Codesign

In hardware software codesign paradigm often a performance estimation of the system is needed for hardware software partitioning. The tremendous growth of application specific embedded systems necessitate high level system design tools for rapid prototyping. This work involves design of a language Sim-nML which will be the base for a high level system design environment. The language is simple,...