Isolation of behavior design from system implementation

This paper identifies three inefficiencies in the workflow for design of heterogeneous systems: the lack of hardware independence, the need to split execution among different systems, and the lack of tools to unify the design and execution phases. To address these inefficiencies, it proposes a framework for isolation of behavior from system implementation using Azido. Azido describes behavior in purely algorithmic form based on canonical primitives and uses a visual design language that allows development for different types of computational resources such as FPGAs, CPUs, and GPUs in a single environment.