Decreasing Simulation Runtimes with System Generator for DSP Hardware Co - Simulation

This document provides an overview of Hardware Co-Simulation in System Generator for DSP from a performance perspective, and provides information to help reduce long simulation run times. • have a basic understanding of how a System Generator for DSP design fits into the Simulink® simulation environment. • understand the motivation for and operation of frame-based Hardware Co-Simulation implementations. • be able to choose an implementation approach that provides the shortest simulation runtime for a specific simulation. This application note serves as a reference for detailed information and design files for each implementation described. • acquire other helpful information to consider (apart from the implementation approach) that can also decrease simulation runtimes. This document contains detailed tables and descriptive graphs. All the example designs used for analysis are included in the ZIP file that can be downloaded along with this application note. The ZIP file also contains an Excel spreadsheet which can be used as a template to graph your own results.