Rapid prototyping of telecommunication systems on mixed HW/SW architectures

Abstract

This paper presents a codesign methodology and environment for both hardware and software modules design of telecommunication systems. We describe how High Level Synthesis (HLS) tools like GAUT and SYNDEX can be efficiently used for rapid prototyping of heterogeneous architecture based on DSP TMS320C40 and ASIC. As an illustration, we present a mixed implementation of the GMDF alpha algorithm, an adaptive filter well suited to acoustic echo cancellation, on both ASIC and TS320C40 DSP.