Hardware-Software Prototyping from LOTOS

Luis Sánchez Fernández, Gernot Koch, Natividad Martínez Madrid, María Luisa López Vallejo, Carlos Delgado Kloos, Wolfgang Rosenstiel

Abstract: In this paper we present an extension to the co-design approach based on LOTOS presented in Fourth International Workshop on Hardware-Software Co-Design, 1996. In this new version we add a prototyping stage to our design flow, that allows to validate the design at the implementation level. We present the complete approach, stressing the prototyping stage after partitioning. An example of an Ethernet bridge serves us to illustrate our approach and present some results.