A scalable hardware library for the rapid prototyping of SDL specifications

Author

Dörfel, Matthias ; Slomka, Frnak ; Hofmann, Richard

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Archit. & Performance Evaluation, Erlangen-Nurnberg Univ., Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

36342

Firstpage

120

Lastpage

125

Abstract

A known problem in the area of hardware/software codesign is the selection of the proper interface between the different parts of the design. This paper presents a technique which eases the selection by combining different synthesis techniques together with rapid prototyping. The application field of the technique is the design of communication systems where C and VHDL are generated from a specification given in SDL. For the VHDL area, high-level synthesis is used to synthesize a behavioural description

Keywords

C language; hardware description languages; hardware-software codesign; software prototyping; specification languages; C language; SDL specifications; VHDL; behavioural description; communication systems; hardware software codesign; high-level synthesis; rapid prototyping; scalable hardware library; synthesis techniques; Application software; Computer architecture; Diversity reception; Hardware; Protocols; Prototypes; Signal processing; Software libraries; Software performance; Software prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Rapid System Prototyping, 1999. IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Clearwater, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0246-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWRSP.1999.779041

Filename

779041