A survey of hardware and software co-design issues for system on chip design

Abstract

The modern embedded system needs to be designed to meet the tremendous changes due to high speed and advancement in technologies. Encapsulating user needs into a small area and enhancing the specification of today’s requirement is really a challenging task for System on chip designer. This review presents the practical view of Hardware/Software co-design and its main design issues tackled in recent years. The role of SOC cannot be limited to a single task, since it is an ocean of streams like Computer Architecture, VLSI and Embedded System, which has been joined together to deal with a current multi-tasking environment. The key motive of this survey is to cover the design issues faced by SOC designer and applying all these in Hardware Software co-design. A comparative study is made to show how the specific design is used efficiently and goals are reached in each proposal with its metrics and drawbacks.