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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2005
Satish R. Ganesan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Amit Kasat, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sathyanarayanan Thammanur, San Jose, CA (US);
Sundararajarao Mohan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Usha Prabhu, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Ralph D. Wittig, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Satish R. Ganesan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Amit Kasat, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sathyanarayanan Thammanur, San Jose, CA (US);
Sundararajarao Mohan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Usha Prabhu, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Ralph D. Wittig, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for providing self-implementing hardware-software libraries is described. One aspect of the invention relates to designing an embedded system for an integrated circuit. A hardware platform is defined. A software platform is defined having a plurality of software components, including a library. Hardware component dependency data associated with the library is identified. At least one hardware component is added to the hardware platform in response to the hardware component dependency data.