Title :
Two-level hardware/software partitioning using CoDe-X
Author :
Hartenstein, Reiner W. ; Becker, Jürgen ; Kress, Rainer
Author_Institution :
Kaiserslautern Univ., Germany
Abstract :
The paper presents a two level hardware/software partitioning strategy of a co-design framework (CoDe-X) using an Xputer as an accelerator with a reconfigurable datapath. CoDe-X accepts C programs and carries out both profiling-driven host/accelerator partitioning and (2nd level) resource-parameter-driven sequential/structural partitioning of the accelerator source code to optimize the utilization of its reconfigurable datapath resources
Keywords :
program compilers; software engineering; C programs; CoDe-X co-design framework; Xputer; accelerator; accelerator source code; optimized reconfigurable datapath resource utilisation; profiling-driven host/accelerator partitioning; reconfigurable datapath; resource-parameter-driven sequential/structural partitioning; two-level hardware/software partitioning; Acceleration; Application specific processors; Computational modeling; Coupling circuits; Design optimization; Hardware; Layout; Research and development; Software design; Software performance;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering of Computer-Based Systems,1996. Proceedings., IEEE Symposium and Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Friedrichshafen
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7355-9
DOI :
10.1109/ECBS.1996.494566