Codesign of embedded systems based on Java and reconfigurable hardware components

In the design of embedded hardware/software systems, exploration and synthesis of different design alternatives and co-verification of specific implementations are the most demanding tasks. Networked embedded systems pose a new challenge to existing design methodologies as novel requirements like adaptivity and runtime-reconfigurability arise. In this paper; we introduce a co-design environment based on the Java language which supports specification, co-synthesis and prototype execution for dynamically reconfigurable hardware/software systems.