Proceedings of the 22nd ACM/IEEE conference on Design automation - DAC '85 · 1985 · 10 citations · 0 references
EngineeringComputer EngineeringComputer ScienceComputer ArchitectureHardware-software Co-designSystems ArchitectureDigital Integrated Circuit DesignHardware Modeling For Digital SystemsHardware SpecificationHardware-software PartitioningMixed-signal Integrated Circuit DesignSoftware ArchitectureComputer-aided Design For Integrated CircuitsDigital Signal Processing Block ArchitectureGraph-based Design RepresentationModel-based Hardware DesignSystem Architecture DesignSystem-level ModelingVery-large-scale Integration (Vlsi) DesignVlsi Implementation
Codesign of hardware and software for high performance signal processing systems is important if the potential benefits of VLSI are to be realized. This article describes a CAD system developed to support the codesign of hardware and software architectures for high performance digital signal processors which is based on a directed graph methodology. A comprehensive example is developed to demonstrate the use of the system, the fundamentals of the modeling and analysis methodology are discussed, and an overview of the tools in the system is presented along with a discussion of the enhancements currently being developed.