Evaluation of a Hardware-Software Codesign Technique of Network Protocol Stacks

Abstract

Many studies in SoC (System-on-Chip) areas ignore the scheduling of messages exchanged between hardware-software components as a fine level of inter-component communication granularity. Such a message scheduling scheme in hardware-software codesign of SoC systems has received comparatively less attention in the literature despite their importance as an element of a complete partitioning solution. In this paper, we attempt to resolve a message scheduling problem to meet the semantics of inter-component communications. Additionally, we evaluate the performance of hardware-software codesign for network protocol stacks.