Hardware/Software CODESIGN

This page provides information about the Computer Engineering and Science Research in Hardware/Software CODESIGN.

COMET (COdesign METhodology) Hardware-Software Codesign Methodology

COMET is a hardware-software codesign methodology which uses C and VHDL as the software and hardware description of an embedded system. COMET uses a rules file to bind the C and VHDL descriptions into a complete system description.

Screen Dumps of the COMET GUI tools:

• COMET MANGE : The COMET system management tool.
• COMET : The COMET system design enviroment GUI.
• COMET TREE : The COMET system partition graphing tool.

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Other Research Activities related to Hardware/Software CODESIGN

• Berkeley's Ptolemy Research Project.
• German government sponsered SIR/CASTLE hardware/software codesign tool.
• Berkeley's Hardware/Software Codesign Group.
• Provably Correct Hardware/Software Co-design is a UK research effort sponsored by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
• VIOOL is a project focuses on using C++ as the Universal Description Language: The one language for describing both hardware and software.
• COMET (Cosynthesis at BOard and MCM LEvels for DigiTal Signal Processors) is a hardware-software cosynthesis environment for developing embedded signal processing module designs. COMET users can synthesize single board application-specific DSP (Digital Signal Processing) architectures. These target architectures can contain application-specific ASICS, FPGAs, MCMs and off-the-shelf hardware components along with an off-the-shelf processor which executes application-specific software as well as other kernel functions.
• IEEE DASC VHDL Hardware Software Codesign Study Group is a study group with the purpose to address systems design issues related to hardware/software codesign and the standardization efforts required to support the automation of codesign.
• Algorithmic/Automated Synthesis/Specification Partitioning/Profiling is a research effort by the UQ Electrical and Computer Engineering department in hardware/software codesign.
• Integer Programming for Partitioning in Software Oriented Codesign is an abstract and a paper on a partitioning scheme for hardware/software codesign.
• Chinook is a hardware-software co-synthesis CAD tool for embedded systems.
• COSMOS is a co-design methodology and tools aimed at the design and synthesis of complex mixed hardware-software systems.
• LYCOS is a Co-Synthesis System which uses a subset of VHDL and a subset of C to be use as a codesign design space exploration environment, trading-off target CPU, hardware area (actual size as well as controller/datapath area trade-offsoffs), and partitioning granularity, i.e., size of code-segments to be placed in hardware or software.