SystemCoDesigner: Automatic design space exploration and rapid prototyping from behavioral models

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 580-585

  Haubelt, Christian ^a   Schlichter, Thomas ^a   Keinert, Joachim ^a   Meredith, Mike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Forte Design Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Design space exploration; ESL design; Rapid prototyping

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; JOB ANALYSIS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SPACE RESEARCH; SYSTEM THEORY;

DESIGN SPACE EXPLORATION; ESL DESIGN; PROTOTYPING;

LOGIC DESIGN;

EID: 51549093427     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DAC.2008.4555883     Document Type: Conference Paper

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