An integrated hardware-software cosimulation environment for heterogeneous systems prototyping

In this paper, we present a hardware-software cosimulation environment for heterogeneous systems. To be an efficient system verification environment for the rapid prototyping of heterogeneous systems, the environment provides interface transparency, simulation acceleration, smooth transition to cosynthesis, and integrated user interface and internal representation. As an experimental example, a heterogeneous system is cosimulated and prototyped successfully, which shows that our environment can be a useful heterogeneous system specification/verification environment for rapid prototyping.