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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing Volume 2009, Article ID 376232, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2009/376232 Research Article A Message-Passing Hardware/Software Cosimulation Environment for Reconfigurable Computing Systems ˜ 1 2 2 Manuel Saldana, Emanuel Ramalho, and Paul Chow 1Arches Computing Systems, 708-222 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada M5T 3A2 2 The Edward S. Rogers, Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King’s College Road, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3G4 ˜ Correspondence should be addressed to Manuel Saldana, ms@ and Paul Chow, pc@ Received 15 March 2009; Accepted 19 June 2009 Recommended by Lionel Torres High-performance reconfigurable computers (HPRCs) provide a mix of standard processors and FPGAs to collectively accelerate applications. This introduces new design challenges, such as the need for portable programming models across HPRCs and system-level verification tools. To address the need for cosimulating a complete heterogeneous application using both software and hardware in an HPRC, we have created a tool called the Message-passing Simulation Framework (MSF). We have used it to simulate and develop an interface enabling an MPI-based approach to exchange data between X86 processors and hardware engines inside FPGAs. The MSF can also be used as an application development tool that enables multiple FPGAs in simulation to exchange messages amongst themselves and with X86 processors. As an example, we simulate a LINPACK benchmark hardware core using an Intel-FSB-Xilinx-FPGA platform to quickly prototype