Communication synthesis and HW/SW integration for embedded system design

• Published in: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Hardware/Software Codesign. (CODES/CASHE'98) pp. 49 - 53
• Main Authors: Gogniat, G., Auguin, M., Bianco, L., Pegatoquet, A.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 1998
• Subjects: Application software; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Digital signal processing; Embedded system; Hardware; Protocols; Prototypes; Signal processing algorithms; Signal synthesis
• ISBN: 9780818684425; 0818684429
• ISSN: 1092-6100
• DOI: 10.1109/HSC.1998.666237

The implementation of codesign applications generally requires the use of heterogeneous resources (e.g., processor cores, hardware accelerators) in one system. Interfacing hardware and software components together and providing communications between them are particularly error prone and time consuming tasks. Hence, on the basis of a generic architecture we propose an extended communication synthesis method that provides characterization of communications and their implementation scheme in the target architecture. This method takes place after partitioning and scheduling and can constitute the basis of a back end of a codesign framework leading to HW/SW integration.