A Platform-Based Taxonomy for ESL Design
IEEE Design & Test
Simulink-based MPSoC design flow: case study of Motion-JPEG and H.264
Proceedings of the 44th annual Design Automation Conference
SciSim: a software performance estimation framework using source code instrumentation
WOSP '08 Proceedings of the 7th international workshop on Software and performance
WOSP '08 Proceedings of the 7th international workshop on Software and performance
SystemClick: a domain-specific framework for early exploration using functional performance models
Proceedings of the 45th annual Design Automation Conference
An efficient approach for system-level timing simulation of compiler-optimized embedded software
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Design Automation Conference
EPIDETOX: an ESL platform for integrated circuit design and tool exploration
CODES+ISSS '11 Proceedings of the seventh IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
ASP-based optimized mapping in a simulink-to-MPSoC design flow
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
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A modeling language with formal semantics is able to capture a system's functionality unambiguously, without concerning implementation details. Such a formal language is well-suited for a design process that employs formal techniques and supports hardware/software synthesis. On the other hand, SystemC is a widely used system level design language with hardware-oriented modeling features. It provides a desirable simulation framework for system architecture design and exploration. This paper presents a design framework, called SysCOLA, that makes use of the unique advantages of both a new formal modeling language, COLA, and SystemC, and allows for parallel development of application software and system platform. In SysCOLA, function design and architecture exploration are done in the COLA based modeling environment and the SystemC based virtual prototyping environment, respectively. Our concepts of abstract platform and virtual platform abstraction layer facilitate the orthogonalization of functionality and architecture by means of mapping and integration in the respective environments. As SysCOLA is targeted at the automotive domain, the whole design approach is showcased using a case study of designing an automotive system.