AKKA: A Tool-kit for Cosynthesis and Prototyping

• Shortened design and life time of embedded systems has motivated active research in HW/SW co-design area, together with evolution of relatively long-life of reconfigurable HW. In this paper we present Akka1[1][2] - a set of tools for design space exploration, co-simulation and co-synthesis with two industrial examples from the telecommunication field - Maintenance functionality of the ATM protocol and Channel decoder functionality of a D-AMPS base station. For fast prototyping we have selected Xilinx XC4013 FPGA based board from Virtual Computer Corporation. The board is connected to the system bus (SBus) of the host computer.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)

Keyword

hw/sw codesign

FPGA

Electrical engineering, electronics and photonics

Elektroteknik, elektronik och fotonik

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