Title :
A macroscopic time and cost estimation model allowing task parallelism and hardware sharing for the codesign partitioning process
Author :
Maestro, J.A. ; Mozos, D. ; Mecha, H.
Author_Institution :
Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Abstract :
This paper describes a method to estimate the implementation cost of the hardware part in a mixed hardware/software system, as well as the related performance. These estimations try to avoid the use of many implementation details in order to keep the complexity order of the process under control. The concepts of hardware sharing and parallelism are exploited to make a picture of the whole hardware cost associated with a given partition
Keywords :
high level synthesis; iterative methods; real-time systems; scheduling; codesign partitioning process; complexity order; hardware cost; hardware sharing; macroscopic time/cost estimation model; mixed hardware/software system; task parallelism; Circuits; Cost function; Embedded software; Embedded system; Hardware; Parallel processing; Partitioning algorithms; Process control; Software performance; Software standards;
Conference_Titel :
Design, Automation and Test in Europe, 1998., Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8359-7
DOI :
10.1109/DATE.1998.655860
