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ES716 : Hardware Software Codesign

Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore Campus

Introduction
Lecture 01

Dr. Sudarshan TSB


Professor
Dept. of CSE

Today

Discussion of Handout

Introduction to the course

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Course Information


Books:
A Practical Introduction to Hardware/Software Codesign,
Patrick Schaumont,Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4419-5999-7

Specification and Design of Embedded Systems


Daniel D. Gajski, Frank Vahid, S. Narayan, & J. Gong, Prentice Hall,
1994.

Hardware / Software Co-Design: Principles and Practice,


J Staunstrup and Wayne Wolf, Prentice Hall, 1994.


References
Journal & Conference Papers

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Relevant Conferences











MEMOCODE :Conference on Formal Methods and Models for Codesign


CODES_ISSS: The premier conference for System Level Design
The CODES+ISSS Conference is the merger of two major
international symposia on hardware/software codesign and system
synthesis.
DAC: Design Automation Conference
ASP-DAC: Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference
CASES: International Conference on Compilers, Architecture and Synthesis
for Embedded Systems
ICCAD; International Conference on Computer Aided Design
RSP: IEEE International Symposium on Rapid System Prototyping.
ACSD: International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System
Design
HLDVT: IEEE International High Level Design Validation and Test
Workshop

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Course Goals

Architectural Models
Specification Languages
Partitioning issues
Partitioning techniques
Co-simulation, Co-synthesis
Design Quality Estimation
Compilation Techniques
System-Design Methodology

Recent Trends









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Course Grading


Assignments
20%

Term Paper

Test-1 : 15%

Test-2 : 15%

End Sem Exam : 50%

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Introduction

Digital systems designs consists of hardware


components and software programs that
execute on the hardware platforms

What is Hardware-Software Co-design ?

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Wall Crumbled?


Analog vs Digital

ISP vs ASIP

ASIC vs FPGA

Hardware vs Software

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Digital Design
Judged by its objective in application domain




Performance (Speed, Power)


Design & Manufacturing cost (Cost, Time)
Ease of Programmability
It depends on both the hardware & software
components

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Speed.


Computer Architects argue




Unfortunately,


Performance is an advantage of hardware(ASIC)


over software (runnibg on a microprocessor)

High-end processor have very high clk freq that


much faster than ASICs

Speed.


Not an important metricalthough a good metric..

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Power


Consider the energy consumption of an AES


engine (encryption) on different architectures:

Dedicated Hardware engines are better


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Embedded Systems


Is a system that has software embedded into


a computer-hardware, which makes a system
dedicated for an application or specific part of
an application or product or part of a larger
system.

Is one that has a dedicated purpose software


embedded in a computer hardware

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Embedded Systems

It is any device that includes a programmable


computer buts is not itself intended to be a
general purpose computer


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Hardware-Software Co-design

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Concurrent Design


Traditional Design Flow

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Concurrent (Co-design)
Flow

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What is HW/SW Co-Design?


The cooperative design of hardware and
software components;
The unification of currently separate
hardware and software paths;
Moving of functionality between hardware
and software;

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Co-design Definition and Key Concepts




Co-design


The meeting of system-level objectives by


exploiting the trade-offs between hardware and
software in a system through their concurrent
design

Key concepts


Concurrent: hardware and software developed


at the same time on parallel paths
Integrated: interaction between hardware and
software developments to produce designs
that meet performance criteria and functional
specifications

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Hardware Programmability

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FPGAs


FPGA circuits can be configured on-the-fly


to implement a specific software function
with better performance than on
microprocessor.
FPGA can be reprogrammed to perform
another specific function without changing
the underlying hardware.
This flexibility allows new design
methodolgy for digital circuits.

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Motivations for Codesign




Factors driving codesign


(hardware/software systems):


Instruction Set Processors (ISPs) available as


cores in many design kits (386s, DSPs,
microcontrollers,etc.)
Systems on Silicon - many transistors available
in typical processes (> 10 million transistors
available in IBM ASIC processor, etc.)

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Increasing capacity of field programmable devices


- some devices even able to be reprogrammed
on-the-fly (FPGAs, CPLDs, etc.)

Efficient C compilers for embedded processors

Hardware synthesis capabilities

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Motivations for Codesign (contd)




The importance of codesign in designing


hardware/software systems:


Improves design quality, design cycle time, and


cost


Reduces integration and test time

Supports growing complexity of embedded


systems
Takes advantage of advances in tools and
technologies




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Processor cores
High-level hardware synthesis capabilities
ASIC development
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References


De Micheli, Rajesh K Gupta, Hardware/Software CoDesign, Proceedings of IEEE, Vol.85, No. 3, March
1997, pp 349-365

D Edenfeld, A B Kahng, Mike Rodgers, Y Zorian, 2003


Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, IEEE
Computer, January 2004, pp 47-56.

Wayne Wolf, A Decade of Hardware / Software


Codesign, IEEE Computer, April 2003, pp 38-43.

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Thank you

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