Design Process and Tools for the HW/SW-Codesign and
Rapid-Prototyping of Parallel and Heterogenous Real-Time Communication
Systems
Frank Slomka, Mathias Dorfel, Simone Spitz, and Richard Hofmann
Abstract
Based on the methodology for the development of communication systems, a
framework for early performance evaluation and hardware/software codesign of
such systems is presented. We describe how performance requirements can be
formulated in a formal way during the analysis phase of a project and how these
requirements are used by the synthesis tools for hardware/software codesign
during the design and implementation phase of the development cycle.
Additionally, the concepts of our codesign tools and a heterogeneous
rapid-prototyping environment are described. It is shown, how our prototyping
board can be used for validating the results of the early performance
evaluation. We demonstrate the approach on an example of a real-time
communication system.
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