Hardware/Software Cosynthesis of DSP Systems
Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya · Signal processing and communications · 2001
including synthesis of applicationspecific instruction processors (ASIPs) [43], nor do we explore cosynthesis for control-dominant systems, such as those based on procedural language specifications [22], communicating sequential processes [50], and finite state machine models [6]. All of these are important directions within cosynthesis research, but they do not fit centrally within the DSP-oriented scope of this chapter. Motivation for coarse-grain dataflow specification stems from the growing trend towards specifying, analyzing, and verifying embedded system designs in terms of domain-specific concurrency models [33], and the increasing use of To appear in "Programmable Digital Signal Processors: Architecture, Programming, and Applications," Edited by Y. H. Hu, Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2001. dataflow-based concurrency models in high-level design environments for DSP system implementation. Such design environments, which enable DSP systems to be specified as hierarchies of block d