An Open-Source Tool Set Enabling Analog-Digital-Software Co-Design

This paper presents an analog-digital hardware-software co-design environment for simulating and programming reconfigurable systems. The tool simulates, designs, as well as enables experimental measurements after compiling to configurable systems in the same integrated design tool framework. High le...

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Published inJournal of low power electronics and applications Vol. 6; no. 1; p. 3
Main Authors Collins, Michelle, Hasler, Jennifer, George, Suma
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published MDPI AG 04.03.2016
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FPAA
Scilab
x2c
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Summary:This paper presents an analog-digital hardware-software co-design environment for simulating and programming reconfigurable systems. The tool simulates, designs, as well as enables experimental measurements after compiling to configurable systems in the same integrated design tool framework. High level software in Scilab/Xcos (open-source programs similar to MATLAB/Simulink) that converts the high-level block description by the user to blif format (sci2blif), which acts as an input to the modified VPR tool, including the code v p r 2 s w c s , encoding the specific platform through specific architecture files, resulting in a targetable switch list on the resulting configurable analog–digital system. The resulting tool uses an analog and mixed-signal library of components, enabling users and future researchers access to the basic analog operations/computations that are possible.
ISSN:2079-9268
2079-9268
DOI:10.3390/jlpea6010003