Functionally-aware Partitioning of Discrete Signal Transforms for Distributed Hardware Architectures

A high-level partitioning methodology is introduced, which uses formulation-level discrete signal transform properties to provide improved results for their partitioning to distributed hardware architectures. We discuss how discrete signal transform characteristics were taken into account to focus design exploration during partitioning. Additionally, a description is given of the experiments conducted to determine the effect of formulation-level properties on solution quality. Perceived patterns in experimental results were used to generate ´partition- friendly´ formulations for distributed hardware architectures.