Fast design exploration with unified HW/SW co-verification framework for high throughput wireless communication system
Nana Sutisna, Reina Hongyo, Leonardo Lanante, Y. Nagao, Masayuki Kurosaki, Hiroshi Ochi · 2016
This paper presents fast design exploration with unified HW/SW co-verification framework, particularly for high throughput wireless communication system. Design exploration is an important task during design development in order to obtain optimum design with various possible methods/algorithms of implementation and also under various design constraints. The fast design exploration is enabled by employing co-operation between model-based RTL design and proposed unified HW/SW co-verification platform. Fast design exploration and unified HW/SW co-verification of MIMO MLD Decoder is selected as design example to show the effectiveness employed methodology and proposed platform. This approach gives significant improvement on reducing hardware design and verification time as compared with conventional approach, as well as provides reliable design.