An approach for hardware-software codesign

T.B Ismail (1) , M. Abid (1) , K. O'Brien (1) , A.A. Jerraya (1)

1 TIMA - Techniques de l'Informatique et de la Microélectronique pour l'Architecture des systèmes intégrés

This paper presents a method for modeling and synthesizing mixed HW/SW systems. The proposed method starts from a full system-level specification. Systems are modeled in a synthesis-oriented manner by means of an extended finite state machine model. System-level synthesis is composed of three tasks: partitioning systems into inter-dependent sub-systems, inter-subsystem communication synthesis and architecture mapping onto a flexible architecture platform which includes both hardware and software components. The overall method is illustrated with an example.

Mots clés: hardware-software-codesign; modeling-; synthesizing-; full-system-level-specification; synthesis-oriented-manner; extended-finite-state-machine-model; system-level-synthesis; partitioning-systems; inter-dependent-sub-systems; inter-subsystem-communication-synthesis; hardware-description-language

Domaines: Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique

T.B Ismail, M. Abid, K. O'Brien, A.A. Jerraya. An approach for hardware-software codesign. 1994, pp.73-80. ⟨hal-00008032⟩