CHOP: A constraint-driven system-level partitioner
DAC '91 Proceedings of the 28th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
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DAC '92 Proceedings of the 29th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
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EURO-DAC '94 Proceedings of the conference on European design automation
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EURO-DAC '94 Proceedings of the conference on European design automation
Incremental hardware estimation during hardware/software functional partitioning
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
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ISSS '95 Proceedings of the 8th international symposium on System synthesis
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IEEE Design & Test
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IEEE Design & Test
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IEEE Design & Test
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EDTC '95 Proceedings of the 1995 European conference on Design and Test
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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
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
Procedure cloning: a transformation for improved system-level functional partitioning
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
Procedure cloning: a transformation for improved system-level functional partitioning
EDTC '97 Proceedings of the 1997 European conference on Design and Test
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CODES '97 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Hardware/Software Co-Design
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ISSS '96 Proceedings of the 9th international symposium on System synthesis
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EURO-PDP'00 Proceedings of the 8th Euromicro conference on Parallel and distributed processing
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We describe a model that supports the functional partitioning of a system-level functional specification among hardware and software components. The model includes only the information needed by partitioning, and thus can be communicated freely and generated automatically. Based on characteristics of several real examples, we describe a technique for automatically generating generic model instances, on which partitioning heuristics can be applied and fairly compared. Such comparisons will become increasingly important as research begins to focus on fast yet effective functional partitioning techniques. We describe a set of tools for converting a specification to the model, for generating generic model instances, and for applying and comparing partitioning heuristics, available via ftp. Use of these tools may greatly reduce duplicated efforts among researchers wishing to investigate hardware/software partitioning heuristics.