Hardware/Software Co-Design Methodology for Design of Embedded Systems

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Abid, M.^{; 1; *} | Ben Ismail, T. | Changuel, A. | Valderrama, C.A. | Romdhani, M. | Marchioro, G.F. | Daveau, J.M. | Jerraya, A.A.

Affiliations: TIMA Laboratory, System-Level Synthesis Group, 46 Avenue Félix Viallet, 38031 Grenoble Cedex, France Tel.: +33 04 76 57 48 34; Fax.: +33 04 76 47 38 14

Correspondence: [*] Correspondence to: M. Abid.

Note: [1] Assistant professor at ENIM (Ecole Nationale d'Ingniéeurs de Monastir), 5000 Monastir, Tunisia

Abstract: This paper presents the main co-design concepts of distributed embedded hardware/software systems through a detailed presentation of a methodology and an environment for codesign. This presentation gives a comprehensive description of different codesign steps using a codesign of a realistic example: Real-Time Acquisition and Storage Controller acting between analog signals and storage disk. Design starts from a system-level specification and performs hardware/software partitioning, communication synthesis and architecture generation. To produce an efficient solution, the codesign process is guided by performance and constraints that depend on the application context.

DOI: 10.3233/ICA-1998-5106

Journal: Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 69-84, 1998