PandA about

The primary objective of the PandA project is to develop a usable framework that will enable the research of new ideas in the HW-SW Co-Design field.

The PandA framework includes methodologies supporting the research on the high-level synthesis of hardware accelerators, parallelism extraction for embedded systems, hardware/software partitioning and mapping, metrics for performance estimation of embedded software applications, and dynamically reconfigurable devices.

PandA is free software, free in the sense that it respects the user’s freedom, released under the GNU General Public License version 3 and developed at Politecnico di Milano (Italy).

The source files currently distributed mainly cover the high-level synthesis of C/C++-based descriptions.
Patches and pull requests could be submitted at GitHub, while stable releases are available for download through this link.

For further information, send an e-mail to panda-info@polimi.it or visit the google group page.

The following support is gratefully acknowledged:

  • Xilinx through the donation of two Nexys4 boards and for full licenses of Vivado Design Suite.
  • Altera through the donation of many DE1 CycloneII boards, one DE1-SOC, and a full Quartus software license.
  • NanoXplore through the donation of many licenses of NanoXplore software.
  • European Union for funding some of this work through this list of projects:
    • ICODES – Interface and Communication based Design of Embedded Systems
    • hArtes – Holistic Approach to Reconfigurable Real-Time Embedded Systems
    • Synaptic – SYNthesis using Advanced Process Technology Integrated in regular Cells, IPs, architectures, and design platforms
    • Faster – Facilitating Analysis and Synthesis Technologies for Effective Reconfiguration
    • HERMES – qualification of High pErformance pRogrammable Microprocessor and dEvelopment of Software ecosystem
    • EVEREST – dEsign enVironmEnt foR Extreme-Scale big data analytics on heterogeneous platforms
  • European Space Agency for funding some of this work through this list of contracts:
    • ESA/ESTEC/Contract N. 4000100797 – Development of methodologies and tools for predictable, real-time LEON-DSP-based embedded systems.
    • ESA/ESTEC/Contract No. 22167/09/NL/JK. Cache Optimization for LEON Analysis (COLA).
    • ESA/ESTEC/Contract Call-Off Order 4 “Multicore and Schedulability Analysis” for TASTE project.
    • ESA/ESTEC/Contract No. 4000121154/17/NL/LF Compact Reconfigurable Avionics Model-Based Avionic Design (CORA-MBAD)

A framework for Hardware-Software Co-Design of Embedded Systems