A codesign case study in computer graphics

Author

Brage, Jens P. ; Madsen, Jan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Tech. Univ. Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

fYear

1994

fDate

22-24 Sep 1994

Firstpage

132

Lastpage

139

Abstract

The paper describes a codesign case study where a computer graphics application is examined with the intention to speed up its execution. The application is specified as a C program, and is characterized by the lack of a simple compute-intensive kernel. The hardware/software partitioning is based on information obtained from software profiling and the resulting design is validated through cosimulation. A locally developed interface model, Merlin, is used as the basis for co-simulation. The achieved speed-up is estimated based on an analysis of profile information

Keywords

C language; computer architecture; computer graphic equipment; computer graphics; instruction sets; systems analysis; C program; Merlin; codesign case study; computer graphics; cosimulation; hardware/software partitioning; locally developed interface model; profile information; software profiling; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer aided software engineering; Computer graphics; Computer science; Design methodology; Distributed computing; Hardware; Kernel; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Hardware/Software Codesign, 1994., Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Grenoble

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6315-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HSC.1994.336714

Filename

336714