Hardware/Software Co-Design and Co-Verification / Edition 1

by Jean-Michel Bergï, Oz Levia, Jacques Rouillard

Overview

Co-Design is the set of emerging techniques which allows for the simultaneous design of Hardware and Software. In many cases where the application is very demanding in terms of various performances (time, surface, power consumption), trade-offs between dedicated hardware and dedicated software are becoming increasingly difficult to decide upon in the early stages of a design. Verification techniques - such as simulation or proof techniques - that have proven necessary in the hardware design must be dramatically adapted to the simultaneous verification of Software and Hardware.
Describing the latest tools available for both Co-Design and Co-Verification of systems, Hardware/Software Co-Design and Co-Verification offers a complete look at this evolving set of procedures for CAD environments. The book considers all trade-offs that have to be made when co-designing a system. Several models are presented for determining the optimum solution to any co-design problem, including partitioning, architecture synthesis and code generation.
When deciding on trade-offs, one of the main factors to be considered is the flow of communication, especially to and from the outside world. This involves the modeling of communication prools. An approach to the synthesis of interface circuits in the context of co-design is presented.
Other chapters present a co-design oriented flexible component data-base and retrieval methods; a case study of an ethernet bridge, designed using LOTOS and co-design methodologies and finally a programmable user interface based on monitors.
Hardware/Software Co-Design and Co-Verification will help designers and researchers to understand these latest techniques in system design and as such will be of interest to all involved in embedded system design.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792396895
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	12/31/1996
Series:	Current Issues in Electronic Modeling , #8
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1. A Model for Exploring Hardware/Software Trade-Offs and Evaluating Design Alternatives.- 2. ECOS: a Generic Codesign Environment For The Prototyping of Real Time Applications “From Formal Specifications to Hardware-Software Partitioning”.- 3. Cosmos: an SDL Based Hardware/Software Codesign Environment.- 4. Hardware/Software Co-Synthesis: Modelling and Synthesis of Interfaces using Interpreted Petri Nets.- 5. Flexible Component Retrieval.- 6. Co-Design at Work: the Ethernet Bridge Case Study.- 7. Programmed Monitoring and Digital System Simulation.

Editorial Reviews

Describes tools for designing and verifying systems in which hardware and software are being designed simultaneously in a CAD environment. Emphasizes the importance of the flow of communication, especially to and from the outside world, as a main criterion for determining the trade-off between dedicated software and dedicated hardware, a decision that increasingly must be made early in the design process. Also discusses generic and SDL-based environments for prototyping real-time applications, modelling and synthesizing interfaces using interpreted Petri Nets, flexible component retrieval, programmed monitoring and digital system simulation, and a case study of an ethernet bridge. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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