Hardware/software partitioning and minimizing memory interface traffic
Axel Jantsch, Peeter Ellervee, Ahmed Hemani, Johnny Öberg, Hannu Tenhunen · 1994
We present a fully automatic approach to hardware/software partitioning and memory allocation by applying compiler techniques to the hardware/software partitioning problem and linking a compiler to a behavioural VHDL generator and high level hardware synthesis tools. Our approach is based on a hierarchical candidate preselection technique and allows (a) efficient collection of profiling data, (b) fast partitioning, and (c) high complexity of