Extensible platform for back-annotation of target-specific characterization onto a model of a hardware system

摘要

A system for facilitating system design includes a back-annotation tool that annotates a model of a hardware system with information derived from results of synthesizing the model to the target hardware description. The derived information may include timing information, information about area usage, power consumption, etc. The derived information may be displayed in conjunction with the model in a modeling environment.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions, the instructions comprising:
one or more instructions that, when executed by a processor of a computer, cause the processor to:
generate a hardware description language representation for a target hardware system;synthesize the hardware description language representation into a description of the target hardware system;determine results of analyzing target characterization data from the description of the target hardware system,
the target characterization data including information about a path in the target hardware system; andmap the target characterization data, based on the results of analyzing the target characterization data, to a model for the target hardware system,
the model comprising a graphical model, andthe one or more instructions to map the target characterization data include one or more instructions to:
identify a first element of the model that includes a start of the path;map an element from the target characterization data to the first element of the model based on an identifier of the element from the target characterization data, the identifier of the element comprising a name of the element;perform a first traverse of the path in the model starting from the first element of the model that includes the start of the path; andidentify the path in the model based on the first traverse.