The Hgen hardware synthesis system

Embedded systems dominate the consumer electronics market. Two factors that greatly affect a product's success are cost and time-to-market. In order to reduce costs a custom design is needed. Creating a custom design requires many interations of design and evaluation which increases the time-to-market and thus reducing the chances for success of the product. A solution to this problem is to automate the design and evaluation. The design process can be divided into the design of the software component (which includes the ASIP) and of the hardware component. This work deals with the automation of the hardware model of the ASIP. Thesis Supervisor: Srinivas Devadas Title: Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science