The DSPCAD Framework for Modeling and Synthesis of Signal Processing Systems

With domain-specific models of computation and widely-used hardware acceleration techniques, hardware/software codesign has the potential of being as agile as traditional software design, while approaching the performance of custom hardware. However, due to increasing use of system heterogeneity, multicore processors, and hardware accelerators, along with traditional software development challenges, codesign processes for complex systems are often slow and error prone. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss a Computer-Aided Design (CAD) framework, called the DSPCAD Framework, that addresses some of these key development issues for the broad domain of digital signal processing (DSP) systems. The emphasis in the DSPCAD Framework on supporting cross-platform, domainspecific approaches enables designers to rapidly arrive at initial implementations Shuoxin Lin Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. e-mail: [email protected] Yanzhou Liu Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. e-mail: [email protected] Kyunghun Lee Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. e-mail: [email protected] Lin Li Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. e-mail: [email protected] William Plishker Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. e-mail: [email protected] Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA, and Department of Pervasive Computing, Tampere University of Technology, Finland. e-mail: [email protected] 1 This paper has been accepted for publication in: S. Ha and J. Teich, editors, Handbook of Hardware/Software Codesign, Springer, 2017. The official/final version of the paper is published on http://link.springer.com/.