CoWare-a design environment for heterogeneous hardware/software systems
K. Van Rompaey,Diederik Verkest,Ivo Bolsens,H. De Man +3 more
- Vol. 1, Iss: 4, pp 252-257
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This paper addresses CoWare: an environment for design of heterogeneous systems on chip, based on a communicating processes data-model which supports encapsulation and refinement and makes a strict separation between functional and communication behaviour.Abstract:
The design problems encountered when designing heterogeneous systems are studied and solutions to these problems are proposed. It is shown why a single heterogeneous specification method ranging from concept to architecture is required and why it should cover issues as modularity design for reuse, reuse of designs and reuse of design environments. A heterogeneous system design environment based on cospecification, cosimulation and cosynthesis is proposed and its application is illustrated by means of a spread spectrum based pager system.read more
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