A development environment for the cosynthesis of embedded software/hardware systems
Martyn D. Edwards, J. J. H. Forrest · 2002
This paper presents a novel development environment for the design, cosynthesis and performance evaluation of embedded software/hardware systems. System behaviour is defined by a C program, and an interactive profiling tool identifies performance critical regions. The original program is subsequently partitioned into software and hardware modules where a critical region is implemented in custom hardware. The significance of our approach is demonstrated by example systems.>