Generating mixed hardware/software systems from SDL specifications

Author

Slomka, Frank ; Dörfel, Matthias ; Münzenberger, Ralf

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Networks & Commun. Syst., Erlangen-Nurnberg Univ., Germany

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

116

Lastpage

121

Abstract

A new approach for the translation of SDL specifications to a mixed hardware/software system is presented. Based on the computational model of communicating extended finite state machines (EFSM) the control flow is separated from data flow of the SDL process. Hence for the first time it is possible to generate a mixed hardware/software implementation of an SDL process. This technique also reduces the complexity for high-level and register-transfer synthesis tools for the hardware parts of the system. The advantage of this methodology is shown by a design example of a wireless communication chip

Keywords

computational complexity; finite state machines; formal specification; hardware description languages; hardware-software codesign; SDL specifications; complexity; computational model; control flow; extended finite state machines; hardware parts; mixed hardware/software systems; wireless communication chip; Application software; Automata; Communication system control; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Data flow computing; Hardware; High level synthesis; Software performance; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Hardware/Software Codesign, 2001. CODES 2001. Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Copenhagen

Print_ISBN

1-58113-364-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HSC.2001.924661

Filename

924661