Hw/Sw codesign of an ATM network interface card starting from a system level specification

作     者：Zergainoh, Nacer-Eddine Marchioro, G.F. Jerraya, A.A. 

作者机构：TIMA Lab Grenoble France 

出 版 物：《Conference Proceedings of the International Symposium on Signals, Systems and Electronics》 (Conf Proc Int Symp Signals Syst Electron)

年 卷 期：1998年

页      面：315-320页

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主　　题：Asynchronous transfer mode 

摘      要：This paper discusses the uses of SDL for the co-design of an ATM Network Interface Card (NIC). In this study, the initial specification is given in SDL. The architecture generation is made using Cosmos, a co-design tool for multiprocessor architecture. Several architectures are produced starting from the same initial SDL specification. The performance evaluation of these solutions was made using hardware/software co-simulation. This paper describes the experiment and the lessons learned about the capabilities and the restrictions of SDL and Cosmos for hardware/software co-design of distributed systems. The use of SDL allows for drastic reduction of the model size when compared to hardware/software model given in C/VHDL. SDL simulation may be 30 times faster than C/VHDL simulation.