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Hardware/Software Co-Synthesis
What is Hardware-Software Co-Design, Co-Synthesis, or
CAD for Embedded Systems?
- 1991: "hardware-software co-design" was a hot new term that meant
anything from high level synthesis and compilers to project
management and economics. It was embraced immediately
because it was long, which meant it must be important, which
meant people should give you funding for it.
- 1992: the term "co-synthesis" was used by people who thought they
did concrete work to distinguish themselves from those that
talked about abstract frameworks but hadn't built anything.
- 1993: DSP people showed the coolest projects and were further ahead
than anyone else in the field. Those in project management
and economics dropped out of the scene. Those doing
control-dominated stuff started having DSP-envy but still
didn't want to take a crash course in control theory.
- 1994: hardware-software co-design (and even co-synthesis)
became an overhyped term like "information superhighway."
The new politically correct term for it is "(CAD for)
embedded systems."
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Tue Oct 11 13:08:22 PDT 1994