Summary, Conclusions, and Future Work

We have addressed the broad problem of hardware-software co-synthesis for digital systems. This formulation of the co-synthesis problem is based on the extension of the high-level synthesis techniques to system-level by including a software component that is implemented on the processor. The software component is generated by partitioning and suitable linearization of operations in a graph-based system model. However, due to the differences in the execution rate and timing of operations, the problems of software generation and its interface to the hardware are more complicated than the problems of operation scheduling in high-level synthesis.