Title :
CoDe-X: a novel two-level hardware/software co-design framework
Author :
Hartenstein, Reiner W. ; Becker, Jürgen ; Kress, Rainer ; Reinig, Helmut
Author_Institution :
Kaiserslautern Univ., Germany
Abstract :
A novel hardware/software co-design framework (CoDe-X) is presented, where an Xputer is used as universal accelerator based on a reconfigurable datapath hardware. CoDe-X accepts C-programs and carries out both, the profiling-driven host/accelerator partitioning for performance optimization, and (second level) the resource-driven sequential/structural partitioning of the accelerator source code to optimize the utilization of its reconfigurable datapath resources
Keywords :
C language; development systems; logic partitioning; program compilers; reconfigurable architectures; simulated annealing; CoDe-X; Xputer; profiling-driven host/accelerator partitioning; program compilers; reconfigurable datapath hardware; resource-driven sequential/structural partitioning; simulated annealing; two-level hardware/software co-design framework; universal accelerator; Computational modeling; Computer languages; Concurrent computing; Fractals; Hardware; Memory management; Partitioning algorithms; Simulated annealing; Sliding mode control; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI Design, 1996. Proceedings., Ninth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangalore
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7228-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICVD.1996.489461
