Software system for parsing signal processing tasks over multiple heterogeneous processors
Erwin H. Warshawsky · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1995
A design automation toolset of great applicability to the signal processing system design community is described herein, the JRS NetSyn product. NetSyn provides facilities for building and maintaining libraries of reusable hardware and software parts. The NetSyn methodology supports hardware/software codesign and tradeoffs and the distribution of software functions to processing elements in accordance with selected optimization objectives. NetSyn utilizes VHDL, Ada, and ANSI C standard languages and related tools. It facilities software reuse by porting application systems to alternative architectures. The paper presents some of the underlying concepts of NetSyn and then describes the functionality of the toolset in some detail.