Most electronic systems, whether self contained or embedded, have a predominant digital
component consisting of a hardware platform which executes software application …

This paper presents two heuristics for automatic hardware/software partitioning of system
level specifications. Partitioning is performed at the granularity of blocks, loops …

We present the Instruction Set Description Language, ISDL, a machine description language
used to describetarget architectures to a retargetable compiler. The featuresand flexibility of …

Hardware-software co-synthesis is the process ofpartitioning an embedded system
specification into hardware andsoftware modules to meet performance, power and cost …

Hardware software co-design is gaining importance with the advent of CAD for embedded
systems. A key phase in such designs is partitioning the specification into hardware and …

Many embedded computers are distributed systems, composed of several heterogeneous
processors and communication links of varying speeds and topologies. This paper …

This paper examines the problem of statically analyzing the performance of embedded
software. This problem is motivated by the increasing growth of embedded systems and a …

We present a system-level approach for power optimization undera set of user specified
costs and timing constraints of hard real-timedesigns. The approach optimizes all three …

Abstract The Kernighan/Lin graph partitioning heuristic, also known as min-cut or group
migration, has been extended over several decades very successfully for circuit partitioning …

The aim of this paper is to present a communication synthesis approach stated as an
allocation problem. In the proposed approach, communication synthesis allows to transform …