A unified HW/SW interface model to remove discontinuities between HW and SW design

Authors:
Aimen Bouchhima;Xi Chen;Frédéric Pétrot;Wander O. Cesário;Ahmed A. Jerraya
Affiliations:
TIMA Laboratory, CEDEX, France;TIMA Laboratory, CEDEX, France;TIMA Laboratory, CEDEX, France;TIMA Laboratory, CEDEX, France;TIMA Laboratory, CEDEX, France
Venue:
Proceedings of the 5th ACM international conference on Embedded software
Year:
2005

Citing 4
Cited 4

A Decade of Hardware/Software Codesign

Computer
Service dependency graph: an efficient model for hardware/software interfaces modeling and generation for SoC design

CODES+ISSS '05 Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
Using abstract CPU subsystem simulation model for high level HW/SW architecture exploration

Proceedings of the 2005 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
System-level design: orthogonalization of concerns and platform-based design

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Programming models and HW-SW interfaces abstraction for multi-processor SoC

Proceedings of the 43rd annual Design Automation Conference
Parallel programming of multi-processor SoC: a HW-SW interface perspective

International Journal of Parallel Programming - Special Issue on Multiprocessor-based embedded systems
Revitalizing CS hardware curricula: object oriented hardware design

Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Leveraging hardware description languages and spiral learning in an introductory computer architecture course

Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

One major challenge in System-on-Chip (SoC) design is the definition and design of interfaces between hardware and software. Traditional ASIC designer and software designer model HW/SW interface twice. Using two separate models introduces a discontinuity between hardware and software. This paper introduces a unified HW/SW component model to describe different parts of HW/SW interface at different abstraction levels. The benefits of using the proposed model are two fold: first, it provides a single model to present system design from abstract specification to mixed HW/SW implementation and second, it enables full system simulation at different abstraction level during refinement flow.