Hardware-Software Co-Design Basics

Learn about the hardware-software co-design workflow and how to use the Workflow Advisor to run the algorithm on the SoC platform

You can use the hardware-software co-design workflow to partition your design to run on SoC platforms. With the HDL Workflow Advisor, you can use the IP Core Generation workflow to generate an HDL IP core that runs on the FPGA on board the SoC. Using Embedded Coder^®, you can generate and build the embedded software, and run it on the ARM^® processor.

Topics

Hardware-Software Co-Design Workflow for SoC Platforms
High-level workflow steps for targeting an SoC platform.
Getting Started with the HDL Workflow Advisor
Learn the basics of the HDL Workflow Advisor and how to run various tasks.
Run HDL Workflow with a Script
Export, import, or configure an HDL Workflow CLI command script.
Model Design for AXI4 Slave Interface Generation
How to design your model for AXI4 or AXI4-Lite interfaces for scalar, vector ports, bus data types, and read back values.
Model Design for AXI4-Stream Interface Generation
How to design your model for AXI4-Stream vector or scalar interface generation.
Model Design for AXI4 Master Interface Generation
Description of AXI4 Master protocol, and how you can design your model for IP core generation with AXI4-Master interfaces.

Featured Examples

Getting Started with Targeting Intel SoC Devices

Use the Simulink Toolstrip and Simulink Interface along with the hardware-software co-design workflow to blink LEDs at various frequencies on the Arrow® SoCKit® evaluation kit.

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Getting Started with Targeting Intel Quartus Pro Based Devices

Define and register the board and reference design for the Intel® Arria10 SoC development kit. In this example, you use a partitioned hardware-software co-design implementation to blink LEDs at various frequencies. In this example, you register the Arria 10 SoC development kit and the reference design in the HDL Workflow Advisor. The reference design also shows the *Early I/O (Split bitstream)* feature supported by Intel Arria 10 SoC in HDL Workflow Advisor. This example uses Embedded Coder(R) to generate C code that runs on the ARM(R) processor to control the LED blink frequency. You can prepare your design for hardware and software implementation on the Intel Arria 10 SoC by deciding which system elements are performed by the programmable logic, and which system elements will run on the ARM Cortex-A9.

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Get Started with HDL Workflow Command-Line Interface

Use the HDL Workflow Advisor to run HDL workflows from the command line and the Export to script option.

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