A note on hardware-software codesign

Abstract

An overview of some hardware-software codesign schemes will be given. In contrast to these approaches, a proposal will be made which builds on the similarity of Ada and VHDL and is strongly oriented towards immediate practical applicability. The proposal can be characterized as object-based, software-oriented, manual, hardware-software re-partitioning. The proposal is illustrated with an fictitious example from the on-board software of the EURECA spacecraft.