ASICosyn: co-synthesis of conditional task graphs with custom ASICs

This paper describes a co-synthesis system called ASICosyn, which is a cosynthesis tool for distributed real time embedded systems that considers various ASIC implementations for tasks. We use Monet, a behavioral level architectural exploration system from Mentor Graphics, to generate multiple implementations of a behavioral description of an ASIC and to analyze their performance. A mutual exclusive detection algorithm and corresponding allocation and scheduling algorithm are developed for the conditional task graph to take care of the control dependencies in the task graph model.