Table 1 The examples of hardware/software co-design components

Software development

OS, file system, device driver, API, test benches, and so on.

Hardware development platform

QEMU, VirtualBox, etc.

Versatile PB development baseboard, Leopard 6 SoC Design Platform, etc.

Design Under Test (DUT)

TLM (SystemC - Synopsys EDA tool),

RTL (Verilog, VHDL)

Physical implementation (FPGA - Xilinx Virtex-V xc5vlx330), etc.