A Novel Hardware/Software Co-Design Framework
Reiner W. Hartenstein, Jürgen Becker, Rainer Kress, Helmut Reinig · 1995
A novel hardware/software co-design framework (CoDe-X) is presented in this paper, 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 the resource-driven sequential/structural partitioning of the accelerator source code to optimize the utilization of its reconfigurable datapath resources. The scene of hardware/software co-design has introduced a number approaches to speed-up performance, to minimize hardware/software trade-off and to reduce total design time. Ernst and Henkel [EHB93] use a system for hardware/software co-design of embedded controllers. Input of the system is the programming language C with additional real-time programming