Hardware/software co-design environment for hierarchical platform-based design

  • Authors:
  • Zhihui Xiong;Sikun Li;Jihua Chen;Maojun Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information System and Management, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, P.R. China;School of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, P.R. China;School of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, P.R. China;School of Information System and Management, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • CSCWD'04 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design I
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

To facilitate the design of SoC (System-on-a-Chip), we present a hardware/software co-design environment called HSCDE. In this paper, some critical techniques related to HSCDE are revealed, including Platform-Based SoC modeling technology and ant algorithm based hardware/software partitioning technology. HSCDE environment divides SoC hardware/software co-design processes into three design levels, and it also supports the mappings among these design levels by two design mapping processes. Experimental results show that HSCDE effectively supports hierarchical Platform-Based SoC hardware/software co-design methodology, and further statistics reveal that an average of 10%~25% revisions on platform templates are required to get a new SoC design.