Title :
The importance of interfaces: a HW/SW codesign case study
Author :
Jensen, Dan C R ; Madsen, Jan ; Pedersen, Steen
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Technol., Tech. Univ., Lyngby, Denmark
Abstract :
This paper presents a codesign case study in image analysis. The main objective is to stress the importance of handling HW/SW interfaces more precisely at the system level. In the presented case study, there is an intuitive and simple HW/SW interface, which is based upon the functional modules in the application. However, it is found that this seemingly sound choice caused a number of practical problems and sub-optimal solutions during the implementation of the prototype system
Keywords :
high level synthesis; image sequences; optimisation; software engineering; case study; functional modules; hardware software codesign; hardware software interface; image analysis; optical flow; optimal solutions; prototype system; system level; Computer aided software engineering; Convolution; Image analysis; Image motion analysis; Image sequence analysis; Information technology; Kernel; Stress; Testing; Weather forecasting;
Conference_Titel :
Hardware/Software Codesign, 1997. (CODES/CASHE '97), Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Braunschweig
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7895-X
DOI :
10.1109/HSC.1997.584584
