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

fYear

1997

fDate

1-4 Sep 1997

Firstpage

158

Lastpage

163

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMSCNT.1997.658456

Filename

658456