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The Chinook Project


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Dept. of CS and E
U. of Washington, Box 352350
Seattle, WA 98195-2350 USA


/shiNOOK/, n.

  1. "chinook salmon" a large salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, of the N. Pacific.
  2. American Indian name of a tribe
  3. a warm dry wind which blows east of the Rocky Mountains.
  4. a warm wet southerly wind west of the Rocky Mountains.
  5. a rare American sled dog
  6. a hardware-software co-synthesis CAD tool for real-time embedded systems.



Chinook is a hardware-software co-synthesis CAD tool for embedded systems. It is designed for control dominated, reactive systems under timing constraints, with a new emphasis on distributed architectures. Current topics include synthesis of run-time support, communication synthesis, and efficient and accurate co-simulation. The co-simulator -- Pia - is available as a Java applet. More details will be available shortly.

The way we envision Chinook to be used is that the designer writes a behavioral description once, and uses Chinook to map it onto several target architecture interactively. The designer makes the partitioning and allocation decisions, and Chinook helps with mapping. This enables designers to make informed design decisions at the high level early in the design cycle, rather than reiterate after having worked out all the low level details. Retargetability will not only make the designs more maintainable but also enables the designer to take advantage of new technologies, instead of being tied down by legacy code.

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