FRAMEWORK FOR EFFICIENT COSIMULATION AND FAST PROTOTYPING ONMULTI-COMPONENTS WITH AAA METHODOLOGY: LAR CODEC STUDY CASE

摘要

Real-time signal and image applications have significanttime constraints involving the use of several powerful calculationunits. Programmable multi-component architectureshave proven to be a suitable solution combining flexibilityand computation power. This paper presents a methodologyfor the fast design of signal and image processing applications.In a unified framework, application modeling, cosimulationand fast implementation onto parallel heterogeneousarchitectures are enabled and help to reduce time-to-market.Moreover, automatic code generation provides a high abstractionlevel for users. Finally, the worthwhile nature ofMatlab/C language cosimulation is illustrated on a still imagecodec named LAR.