A method for hardware software partitioning

Author

Barros, Edna ; Rosenstiel, Wolfgang

Author_Institution

Tubingen Univ., Germany

fYear

1992

fDate

4-8 May 1992

Firstpage

580

Lastpage

585

Abstract

The authors present a method for partitioning a problem specification into hardware and a software implementation. A partitioning approach can be supported by the use of a specification language that permits considering several partitioning possibilities for the problem as well as analyzing different implementation alternatives of each part of the problem. These requirements are fulfilled in the approach by the use of UNITY as the specification language. The approach presented consists of classification of statements, a clustering algorithm, and cluster allocation, as well as cost and constraint analysis. The method is explained with an example.<>

Keywords

circuit CAD; specification languages; UNITY; cluster allocation; clustering algorithm; constraint analysis; cost analysis; hardware software partitioning; problem specification; specification language; Algorithm design and analysis; Application specific integrated circuits; Clustering algorithms; Costs; Design automation; Hardware; Microprocessors; Partitioning algorithms; Specification languages; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

CompEuro '92 . 'Computer Systems and Software Engineering',Proceedings.

Conference_Location

The Hague, Netherlands

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2760-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPEUR.1992.218469

Filename

218469