HW/SW Codesign for the Xilinx Zynq Platform

This work describes a novel approach of HW/SW codesign on the Xilinx Zynq and similar platforms. It deals with interconnections between the Processing System (ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore) and the Programmable Logic (FPGA) to find an abstract and universal way to develop applications that are partially offloaded into the programmable hardware and that run in the Linux operating system. For that purpose a framework for HW/SW codesign on the Zynq and similar platforms is designed. No such framework is currently available