CHOP: A constraint-driven system-level partitioner
DAC '91 Proceedings of the 28th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
Specification partitioning for system design
DAC '92 Proceedings of the 29th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
Specification and design of embedded systems
Specification and design of embedded systems
A method for partitioning UNITY language in hardware and software
EURO-DAC '94 Proceedings of the conference on European design automation
The design of mixed hardware/software systems
DAC '96 Proceedings of the 33rd annual Design Automation Conference
Hardware-Software Cosynthesis for Digital Systems
IEEE Design & Test
Hardware-Software Cosynthesis for Microcontrollers
IEEE Design & Test
SLIF: a specification-level intermediate format for system design
EDTC '95 Proceedings of the 1995 European conference on Design and Test
PACE: A Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Hardware/Software Partitioning
CODES '96 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Hardware/Software Co-Design
Towards a Model for Hardware and Software Functional Partitioning
CODES '96 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Hardware/Software Co-Design
A Comparison of Functional and Structural Partitioning
ISSS '96 Proceedings of the 9th international symposium on System synthesis
A methodology for control-dominated systems codesign
CODES '94 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Hardware/software co-design
CODES '94 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Hardware/software co-design
VHDL system-level specification and partitioning in a hardware/software co-synthesis environment
CODES '94 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Hardware/software co-design
A replication cut for two-way partitioning
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
I/O and performance tradeoffs with the FunctionBus during multi-FPGA partitioning
FPGA '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM fifth international symposium on Field-programmable gate arrays
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
A three-step approach to the functional partitioning of large behavioral processes
Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on System synthesis
Readings in hardware/software co-design
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
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Functional partitioning assigns the functions of a system's program-like specification among system components, such as standard-software and custom-hardware processors. We introduce a new transformation, called procedure cloning, that significantly improves functional partitioning results. The transformation creates a clone of a procedure for sole use by a particular procedure caller, so the clone can be assigned to the caller's processor, which in turn improves performance through reduced communication. We define several cloning heuristics that seek to clone the minimum number of procedures, a goal necessary to obtain the best improvements. We highlight experiments comparing our cloning heuristics and showing partition improvements with cloning.