An Integrated Hardware-Software Cosimulation Environment with Automated Interface Generation - Rapid System Prototyping, 1996. Proceedings., Seventh IEEE International Workshop on

We present a hardware-software cosimulation environment f o r heterogeneous systems. To be an eficient system veriJication environment for the rapid prototyping of heterogeneous systems, the environment provides following features: interface transparency, smooth transition to cosynthesis, simulation acceleration, and integrated user interface and internal representation. Among them, thejrst two are more important than the others. To support these two features, we have developed automatic interface generation schemes. As demonstrating experiments, two heterogeneous systems performing same function with different target architectures were cosimulated and prototyped successfully in our environment. The experimental results show that our environment can be a useful heterogeneous system spec$cationherijktion environment f o r rapid prototyping.