HARDWARE/SOFTWARE COOPERATIVE DESIGN METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve requested performance in the minimum hardware constitution by restricting resources used in a hardware/software cooperative design method from an algorithm descriptive language. SOLUTION: This method includes a dividing process 102 to divide a process 101 to blocks based on for-sentences and if-sentences to extract block generating information 103, a block information extracting process 107 to conduct simulation by a process simulator 104 based on block generating information and an execution time data base to determine connection information 105 to indicate data dependence relation between the blocks and data information 106 indicating data quantity renewed in processes in each block, and a scheduling process 109 to conduct scheduling for the blocks to the processes in the order of less holding data quantity based on the connection information and the data information for determining scheduling information 108.