Design of HW/SW-systems with VLSI subsystems using codes

Author

Buchenrieder, K. ; Sedlmeier, A. ; Veith, C.

Author_Institution

Corp. Res. & Dev., Siemans AG, Munich, Germany

fYear

1993

fDate

20-22 Oct 1993

Firstpage

233

Lastpage

241

Abstract

A Practical Concurrent Design Environment, CODES, for the design of hardware/software systems is described. It is shown that hardware/software Co-Design can be based on an abstract model of communicating parallel random access machines. It is also shown how the design of VLSI circuits that act as subsystems in larger HW/SW systems can be supported with CODES. Major design phases of CODES such as modeling, subsystem design, simulation, and integration into a working prototype are outlined. Further, a novel framework that governs the flow-, data-, and task-management of Co-Design processes is briefly described. A sample application proves the feasibility of the approach

Keywords

Petri nets; VLSI; circuit CAD; concurrent engineering; finite state machines; hardware description languages; high level synthesis; integrated circuit design; parallel algorithms; parallel languages; parallel machines; CODES; Petri nets; VLSI subsystems; abstract model; communicating parallel random access machines; concurrent design environment; data management; finite state machine; flow-management; hardware-software systems design; integration; simulation; task-management; working prototype; Application software; Circuits; Control systems; Hardware; Intelligent systems; Phase change random access memory; Power system modeling; Prototypes; Software prototyping; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Signal Processing, VI, 1993., [Workshop on]

Conference_Location

Veldhoven

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0996-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VLSISP.1993.404483

Filename

404483