Model-Based Design Automation of Hardware/Software Co-Designs for Xilinx Zynq PSoCs

Streit FJ, Letras M, Wildermann S, Hackenberg B, Falk J, Becher A, Teich J (2018)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2018

Conference Proceedings Title: IEEE Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on ReConFigurable Computing and FPGAs

Event location: Cancún, Mexico

ISBN: 978-1-7281-1968-7

DOI: 10.1109/RECONFIG.2018.8641736

Abstract

Shorter design cycles in FPGA-based Programmable System-on-Chips (PSoCs) development require a higher level of abstraction, which has led to a wide acceptance of model driven engineering. However, design and implementation of such heterogeneous PSoC platforms still desire a comprehensive expertise
in hardware/software co-design. Therefore, to keep up with this trend, an automated systematic design flow that directly incorporates model simulation with High-Level Synthesis (HLS) for hybrid hardware and software implementations is necessary. In order to address this issue, the work at hand makes use of the modeling and simulation environment MATLAB/Simulink, a de facto standard in model-based development. Additionally, we present a novel design flow, which enables the assignment of functional tasks of a Simulink application to individual hardware/software solutions for Xilinx Zynq PSoCs. Thereby, the proposed method-
ology enables control and system engineers to automatically explore different hardware and software implementation variants from a behavioral model. As a case study, we present a JPEG decoder application and investigate design objectives like resource costs and throughput to show the practicability of our approach.

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APA:

Streit, F.-J., Letras, M., Wildermann, S., Hackenberg, B., Falk, J., Becher, A., & Teich, J. (2018). Model-Based Design Automation of Hardware/Software Co-Designs for Xilinx Zynq PSoCs. In IEEE Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on ReConFigurable Computing and FPGAs. Cancún, Mexico, MX.

MLA:

Streit, Franz-Josef, et al. "Model-Based Design Automation of Hardware/Software Co-Designs for Xilinx Zynq PSoCs." Proceedings of the International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig), Cancún, Mexico 2018.

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