Title :
A simulation environment for hardware-software codesign
Author :
Coumeri, Sari L. ; Thomas, Donald E.
Author_Institution :
Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
Our goal is to create a simulation environment for hardware-software codesign. It is important to perform simulation of the hardware/software system at various stages of the codesign process. In our environment the hardware and software are viewed as two independent processes in which the hardware is described in a hardware description language and the software is written in a programming language. The processes can be placed on separate machines and run in parallel. Analysis of the environment has shown that significant simulation speed-ups can be achieved if a high degree of parallelism exists between the hardware and software and if there is a sufficient amount of computational CPU time in the software process
Keywords :
digital simulation; hardware description languages; logic design; programming environments; systems analysis; computational CPU time; hardware description language; hardware-software codesign; independent processes; programming language; simulation environment; software process; Analytical models; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer languages; Concurrent computing; Costs; Hardware; Parallel processing; Software systems; Uninterruptible power systems;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors, 1995. ICCD '95. Proceedings., 1995 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7165-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICCD.1995.528791
