Back to Co-Design Tools: Where are we?

• Now or near term (< 2 years):

  • co-simulation (& emulation):
    • heterogenous simulation frameworks
    • university and commercial offerings available
  • performance analysis:
    • queueing models, abstract models, simulation based
    • research efforts in accurate performance estimations
  • hardware synthesis.

• Intermediate term (2-5 years):

  • software/runtime synthesis, scheduling & schedule validation
  • constraint modeling and analysis
  • textual system programming (digital design as a programming activity)

• Long term (> 5 years):

  • highly speculative and technology dependent
  • inter-operability frameworks for embedded software: truely retargetable
  • interface resolution, high-level mapping, (visual) system programming for hardware/software
  • legal system finally catches upto technology and IP encapsulation.

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