Hardware resource allocation for hardware/software partitioning in the LYCOS system
Jesper Nicolai Riis Grode, Peter Voigt Knudsen, Jan Busk Madsen · 1998
This paper presents a novel hardware resource alloca-tion technique for hardware/software partitioning. It al-locates hardware resources to the hardware data-path us-ing information such as data-dependencies between op-erations in the application, and profiling information. The algorithm is useful as a designer’s/designtool’s aid to generate good hardware allocations for use in hard-ware/software partitioning. The algorithm has been imple-mented in a tool under the LYCOS system [9]. The results show that the allocations produced by the algorithm come close to the best allocations obtained by exhaustive search. 1