Open AccessHW/SW co‐design of dedicated heterogeneous parallel systems: an extended design space exploration approach
Author(s) -
Pomante Luigi
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
iet computers and digital techniques
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.219
H-Index - 46
ISSN - 1751-861X
DOI - 10.1049/iet-cdt.2013.0026
Subject(s) - design space exploration , computer science , design flow , computer architecture , co design , embedded system , software , architecture , many core , symmetric multiprocessor system , systems design , parallel computing , distributed computing , operating system , software engineering , art , visual arts
This work faces the problem of the hardware/software (HW/SW) co‐design of dedicated electronic digital systems based on heterogeneous parallel architectures. In particular, other than describing the reference HW/SW co‐design flow, it proposes an extension of a previous system‐level design space exploration approach able to suggest to the designer an HW/SW partitioning of the system functionalities specification and a mapping of the partitioned entities onto an automatically defined ‘heterogeneous multi multi‐core processor’ architecture.