Title
Protocol selection and interface generation for HW-SW codesign
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to present a communication synthesis approach stated as an allocation problem. In the proposed approach, communication synthesis allows to transform a system composed of processes that communicate via high-level primitives through abstract channels into a set of processes executed by interconnected processors that communicate via signals and share communication control. The proposed communication synthesis approach deals with both protocol selection and interface generation and is based on binding/allocation of communication units. This approach allows a wide design space exploration through automatic selection of communication protocols. We present a new algorithm that performs binding/allocation of communication units. This algorithm makes use of a cost function to evaluate different allocation alternatives. We illustrate through an example the usefulness of the algorithm for allocating automatically different protocols within the same application system.
Year
DOI
Venue
1997
10.1109/92.555993
IEEE Trans. VLSI Syst.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
indexing terms,software engineering,algorithm,network synthesis,embedded system,protocols,hardware,high level synthesis,topology,allocation,cost function,computer architecture,space exploration
Journal
5
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
1
Readings in Hardware/Software Co-Design
1-55860-702-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
36
2.58
32
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jean-Marc Daveau116118.16
Gilberto Fernandes Marchioro2433.17
Tarek Ben-Ismail3494.13
Ahmed Amine Jerraya453672.85