SpaceStudio Documentation

Welcome to the SpaceStudio Documentation!

SpaceStudio is an Eclipse-based development environment which gives you access to Space Codesign technology. Based on Eclipse, it provides a fully integrated environment aiming at electronic embedded systems and system-on-chips design. It guides you through the creation, simulation and monitoring of a system.

With SpaceStudio, you can easily model and simulate an embedded system (or part of it) using different abstraction levels; you can create a unique architecture that suits your design, you can partition your design, meaning you can map your own designed modules as hardware components or software threads without changing a single line of code, you can debug and monitor you system. Finally, you can generate all the files required to continue your design process onto an FPGA component.

This documentation explains the concepts of SpaceStudio, the how-to proceed and complements the provided tutorials.

User Documentation

• 1. Getting Started with SpaceStudio
• 2. SpaceStudio User Guide
• 3. Introduction to System Design
• 4. SpaceStudio Monitoring User Guide
• 5. Architecture Implementation User’s Guide
• 6. Implementing Hardware Component
• 7. SpaceLib API
• 8. Python API

Tutorials

• 1. Architecture Exploration and Hardware/Software Partitioning
• 2. Software acceleration with hardware co-processors
• 3. Working with multiple module instances
• 4. Accelerate design performance with Direct Memory Access (DMA) and estimate hardware co-processor timing
• 5. Architecture Implementation
• 6. Python API
• 7. Spaceclocks