A multi-objective approach for software/hardware partitioning in a multi-target tracking system

Heterogeneous Multiprocessor System-on-Chips (MPSoCs) are getting increasingly used to cope with new embedded applications performance requirements. In such systems, the promising cohabitation of processing elements (PEs) having different aspects allows designers to better exploit the synergy of hardware and software cores. Software/Hardware partitioning investigates the design of MPSOCs to take advantage of software flexibility and hardware high performance with the lowest possible costs. Signal-processing-oriented systems handle huge amounts of data and consequently demand highly performant architecture. In this paper, we propose a Software/Hardware partitioning approach for high speed reconfigurable DSP-oriented embedded systems. We present two multi-objective techniques aiming at exploring the partitioning configurations that minimize execution time, resource utilization and time to market of the MPSoC.