A design representation for hardware/software co-synthesis

Author

Stoy, Erik ; Peng, Zebo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Linkoping Univ., Sweden

fYear

1994

fDate

5-8 Sep 1994

Firstpage

192

Lastpage

199

Abstract

This paper presents a design representation for digital designs consisting of both hardware and software components. The design representation is used to capture designs during the synthesis process from a high-level behavioural specification to its structural implementation. It is based on timed Petri nets which are used for representing the control flow. These are extended with a formal notation to capture data manipulation by both software and hardware. Based on the representation, a hardware/software co-design environment is being built, which includes procedures for design evaluation, hardware/software partitioning, and movement of functionality from hardware to software and vice versa

Keywords

Petri nets; circuit analysis computing; formal specification; high level synthesis; logic partitioning; data manipulation; design representation; formal notation; functionality; hardware/software co-synthesis; hardware/software partitioning; high-level behavioural specification; structural implementation; synthesis process; timed Petri nets; Computational modeling; Employment; Flow graphs; Hardware; Information science; Laboratories; Petri nets; Software prototyping; Timing; Virtual prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

EUROMICRO 94. System Architecture and Integration. Proceedings of the 20th EUROMICRO Conference.

Conference_Location

Liverpool

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6430-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EURMIC.1994.390391

Filename

390391