Title :
Determining the interface mechanism in a codesign system based on memory access characteristics
Author :
De Macedo Mourelle, Luiza ; Edwards, Martyn D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput., Univ. of Manchester Inst. of Sci. & Technol., UK
Abstract :
Part of the hardware/software codesign process invariably involves partitioning a system specification into hardware and software sub-systems, which may be subsequently synthesised into custom hardware and compiled into processor code, respectively. This paper presents a study of the influence of hardware sub-system memory accesses, in a codesign system, in order to determine the interface mechanism between the hardware and software sub-systems. The objective is to achieve an acceptable performance in terms of the overall execution time of an application
Keywords :
digital storage; formal specification; high level synthesis; performance evaluation; software engineering; software performance evaluation; storage management; application execution time; compilation; custom hardware; hardware sub-system; hardware/software codesign; interface mechanism; memory access characteristics; performance; processor code; software sub-system; system specification partitioning; Acceleration; Application software; Computer architecture; Coprocessors; Design engineering; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Registers; Software performance; Systems engineering and theory;
Conference_Titel :
EUROMICRO 97. 'New Frontiers of Information Technology'. Short Contributions., Proceedings of the 23rd Euromicro Conference
Conference_Location :
Budapest
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8215-9
DOI :
10.1109/EMSCNT.1997.658456
