Knowledge Based Hardware-Software Partitioning of Electronic Systems

  • María Luisa López-Vallejo
  • Juan Carlos López
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Abstract

The growing complexity of today’s electronic systems implies that many designs have either too many components to fit in a single chip, or strong marketing and technical constraints making unfeasible the implementation of the whole system on a single dedicated circuit. In addition, electronic designs are driven more and more by shrinking market windows that force the designers to come up with new methods to deal with such puzzling designs. The goal of shortening the time-to-market of a specific product, while increasing design quality, has been traditionally achieved by moving up the abstraction level in which the design is specified. Thus, using the proper tools, the designers can get rid of implementation details while focusing on a better search through larger design spaces.

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Execution Time Expert System Task Graph Fine Granularity Target Architecture 
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