A unified model for hardware/software codesign
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2011.
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| author | Dave, Nirav Hemant, 1982- |
| author2 | Arvind. |
| author_facet | Arvind. Dave, Nirav Hemant, 1982- |
| author_sort | Dave, Nirav Hemant, 1982- |
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| description | Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2011. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/681712019-04-12T15:18:54Z A unified model for hardware/software codesign Dave, Nirav Hemant, 1982- Arvind. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2011. This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. Cataloged from student submitted PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-188). Embedded systems are almost always built with parts implemented in both hardware and software. Market forces encourage such systems to be developed with dierent hardware-software decompositions to meet dierent points on the price-performance-power curve. Current design methodologies make the exploration of dierent hardware-software decompositions difficult because such exploration is both expensive and introduces signicant delays in time-to-market. This thesis addresses this problem by introducing, Bluespec Codesign Language (BCL), a united language model based on guarded atomic actions for hardware-software codesign. The model provides an easy way of specifying which parts of the design should be implemented in hardware and which in software without obscuring important design decisions. In addition to describing BCL's operational semantics, we formalize the equivalence of BCL programs and use this to mechanically verify design refinements. We describe the partitioning of a BCL program via computational domains and the compilation of dierent computational domains into hardware and software, respectively. by Nirav Dave. Ph.D. 2012-01-11T20:16:52Z 2012-01-11T20:16:52Z 2011 2011 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68171 768855322 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 188 p. application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Dave, Nirav Hemant, 1982- A unified model for hardware/software codesign |
| title | A unified model for hardware/software codesign |
| title_full | A unified model for hardware/software codesign |
| title_fullStr | A unified model for hardware/software codesign |
| title_full_unstemmed | A unified model for hardware/software codesign |
| title_short | A unified model for hardware/software codesign |
| title_sort | unified model for hardware software codesign |
| topic | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68171 |
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