Hardware/Software Co-Design: Principles and Practice

✍ Scribed by Daniel D. Gajski, Jianwen Zhu, Rainer Dömer (auth.), Jørgen Staunstrup, Wayne Wolf (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 405
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Introduction to Hardware-Software Co-Design presents a number of issues of fundamental importance for the design of integrated hardware software products such as embedded, communication, and multimedia systems. This book is a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of hardware/software co-design. Co-design is still a new field but one which has substantially matured over the past few years. This book, written by leading international experts, covers all the major topics including:

• fundamental issues in co-design;
• hardware/software co-synthesis algorithms;
• prototyping and emulation;
• target architectures;
• compiler techniques;
• specification and verification;
• system-level specification.

Special chapters describe in detail several leading-edge co-design systems including Cosyma, LYCOS, and Cosmos.
Introduction to Hardware-Software Co-Design contains sufficient material for use by teachers and students in an advanced course of hardware/software co-design. It also contains extensive explanation of the fundamental concepts of the subject and the necessary background to bring practitioners up-to-date on this increasingly important topic.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Essential Issues in Codesign....Pages 1-45
Hardware/Software Co-Synthesis Algorithms....Pages 47-73
Prototyping and Emulation....Pages 75-112
Target Architectures....Pages 113-148
Compilation Techniques and Tools for Embedded Processor Architectures....Pages 149-191
Design Specification and Verification....Pages 193-233
Languages for System-Level Specification and Design....Pages 235-262
The Cosyma System....Pages 263-282
Hardware/Software Partitioning Using the Lycos System....Pages 283-305
Cosmos: A Transformational Co-Design Tool for Multiprocessor Architectures....Pages 307-357
Back Matter....Pages 359-395

✦ Subjects

Circuits and Systems; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design; Electrical Engineering; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems