SystemCoDesigner: Automatic design space exploration and rapid prototyping from behavioral models

Haubelt C, Schlichter T (2008)


Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2008

Pages Range: 580-585

Article Number: 4555883

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of 2008 ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC 2008)

Event location: Anaheim, CA US

ISBN: 9781605581156

DOI: 10.1109/DAC.2008.4555883

Abstract

SystemCoDesigner is an ESL tool developed at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. SystemCoDesigner offers a fast design space exploration and rapid prototyping of behavioral SystemC models. Together with Forte Design Systems, a fully automated approach was developed by integrating behavioral synthesis into the design flow. Starting from a behavioral SystemC model, hardware accelerators can be generated automatically using Forte Cynthesizer and can be added to the design space. The resulting design space is explored automatically by optimizing several objectives simultaneously using state of the art multi-objective optimization algorithms. As a result, SystemCoDesigner presents optimized hardware/software solutions to the designer who can select any of them for rapid prototyping on an FPGA basis. Thus, SystemCoDesigner bridges the gap from ESL to RTL and increases the confidence in early design decisions. Copyright 2008 ACM.

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APA:

Haubelt, C., & Schlichter, T. (2008). SystemCoDesigner: Automatic design space exploration and rapid prototyping from behavioral models. In Proceedings of 2008 ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC 2008) (pp. 580-585). Anaheim, CA, US.

MLA:

Haubelt, Christian, and Thomas Schlichter. "SystemCoDesigner: Automatic design space exploration and rapid prototyping from behavioral models." Proceedings of the 45th Design Automation Conference, DAC, Anaheim, CA 2008. 580-585.

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