Hardware/Software Co-Verification Using FPGA Platforms

The problem of hardware and software co-design is as old as systems design and the integration of systems composed of multiple elements. Systems built using electrical and electronic subsystems, mechanical subsystems, software, and embedded software and firmware have always been difficult to design. The problem was less complex when technology for mechanical, electronic, electrical, and software did not allow paper designs to be realized easily in a tangible system, but things have changed with the increasing complexity of systems. Not doing staged integration and co-development of hardware plus software is extremely costly because of the added complexity.