This article looks into what software design is and its significant methods in software engineering. It will help beginners with the basic understanding. Quite often, software development projects run ...

Traditional methods of hardware software co-verification use either the industry standard accelerators/emulators or the instruction set simulators. Both the methodologies are well proven and are well ...

This paper presents a new hardware/software partitioning methodology for SoCs. Target architecture is composed of a RISC host and one or more configurable microprocessors. First, a system is ...

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For my software engineering class I have an assignment that deals with investigating OO design alternatives.<BR><BR>After I googled for it, I found things like <B>algorithmic</B> and <B>structured</B> ...

The core concepts in hardware-software co-design are getting another look, nearly two decades after this approach was first introduced and failed to catch on. What’s different this time around is the ...

When we talk about the signoff of digital IP, we are referring to the full verification of a block. Every feature listed in a device’s datasheet requires verification. Furthermore, every register ...

A five-member team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) took home the winner’s cup in the second annual hardware/software co-design contest sponsored by the ACM-IEEE International ...

The value of design thinking has been well documented in the past. This value can range from increased adoption to more revenue. With some minor modifications to already common software development ...