Hardware/Software Co-Design for Data Flow Dominated Embedded Systems

TLDR: The different tasks of hardware/software co- design including system specification, hardware/ software partitioning, co-synthesis and co-simulation are introduced and state-of-the-art co-design tools and methods for these tasks are summarized.

Abstract: From the Publisher: Hardware/Software Co-Design for Data Flow Dominated Embedded Systems introduces the different tasks of hardware/software co-design including system specification, hardware/ software partitioning, co-synthesis and co-simulation. The book summarizes and classifies state-of-the-art co-design tools and methods for these tasks. In addition, the co-design tool COOL is presented which solves the co-design tasks for the class of data-flow dominated embedded systems." "In Hardware/Software Co-Design for Data Flow Dominated Embedded Systems the primary emphasis has been put on the hardware/software partitioning and the co-synthesis phase and their coupling. In contrast to many other publications in this area, a mathematical formulation of the hardware/software partitioning problem is given. This problem formulation supports target architectures consisting of multiple processors and multiple ASICs. Several novel approaches are presented and compared for solving the partitioning problem, including an MILP approach, a heuristic solution and an approach based on genetic algorithms." "Hardware/Software Co-Design for Data Flow Dominated Embedded Systems is intended to serve students and researchers working on hardware/software co-design. At the same time the variety of presented techniques automating the design tasks of hardware/software systems will be of interest to industrial engineers and designers of digital systems.