Static scheduling of synchronous data flow programs for digital signal processing
IEEE Transactions on Computers
A direct search algorithm for global optimisation of multivariate functions
Australian Computer Journal
The ESTEREL synchronous programming language: design, semantics, implementation
Science of Computer Programming
Compile-Time Scheduling of Dynamic Constructs in Dataflow Program Graphs
IEEE Transactions on Computers
An efficient implementation of reactivity for modeling hardware in the scenic design environment
DAC '97 Proceedings of the 34th annual Design Automation Conference
Hardware-software co-design of embedded systems: the POLIS approach
Hardware-software co-design of embedded systems: the POLIS approach
Heterogeneous modeling and simulation of embedded systems in El Greco
CODES '00 Proceedings of the eighth international workshop on Hardware/software codesign
Software Synthesis from Dataflow Graphs
Software Synthesis from Dataflow Graphs
Modeling Reactive Systems with Statecharts: The Statemate Approach
Modeling Reactive Systems with Statecharts: The Statemate Approach
Maisie: A Language for the Design of Efficient Discrete-Event Simulations
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
The CBP Parameter: A Module Characterization Approach for DSP Software Optimization
Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems
Beyond single-appearance schedules: Efficient DSP software synthesis using nested procedure calls
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) - SPECIAL ISSUE SCOPES 2005
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We present a new design environment, called System Canvas, targeted at DSP and telecommunication system designs. Our environment uses an easy-to-use block-diagram syntax to specify systems at a very high level of abstraction. The block diagram syntax is based on formal semantics, and uses a number of different models of computation including cyclo-static dataflow, dynamic dataflow, and a discrete-event model. A key feature of our tool is that the user does not need to have an awareness of which model is being used; the models can be freely mixed and matched and a simulation can consist of an arbitrary combination of models. The blocks are written in `C'or `C++' and it is straightforward to write custom blocks and incorporate them into custom libraries. Other key features include the ability to control simulations via language-neutral scripts, and a powerful optimization engine that enables optimization of the system over arbitrarily specified parameters, constraints, and cost functions. Fixed-point analysis capability allows any signal or variable in the system to be set to any type of number system before the simulation proceeds. The tool is available on the Windows NT platform and incorporates modern and ubiquitous Windows GUI look and feel.