Hardware/software co-design for DSP applications via the HMS framework

Author

Sheliga, Michael ; Sha, Edwin Hsing-Mean

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Notre Dame Univ., IN, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

7-10 May 1996

Firstpage

1248

Abstract

The design of computer systems that incorporate both standardized off-the-shelf processors, or software, as well as specialized hardware is referred to as hardware/software (hw/sw) co-design. This paper studies the problem and presents a system, the Hardware/MultiSoftware Co-design (HMS) system, for obtaining the best hw/sw configuration for DSP applications. New algorithms for performing partitioning, scheduling, loop pipelining (retiming), hardware needability analysis, etc., are presented. The final configuration satisfies both area and time constraints while using as many standardized processors as possible along with a minimum amount of extra hardware

Keywords

digital signal processing chips; logic CAD; scheduling; systems analysis; timing; DSP applications; HMS framework; Hardware MultiSoftware Codesign system; area constraints; computer systems design; digital signal processing; hardware needability analysis; hardware software codesign; loop pipelining; partitioning; retiming; scheduling; specialized hardware; standardized off-the-shelf processors; standardized processors; time constraints; Algorithm design and analysis; Application software; Digital signal processing; Hardware; Partitioning algorithms; Performance analysis; Pipeline processing; Processor scheduling; Scheduling algorithm; Time factors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1996. ICASSP-96. Conference Proceedings., 1996 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3192-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.1996.543593

Filename

543593