Hardware/software partitioning and minimizing memory interface traffic

We present a fully automatic approach to hardware/software partitioning and memory allocation by applying compiler techniques to the hardware/software partitioning problem and linking a compiler to a behavioural VHDL generator and high level hardware synthesis tools. Our approach is based on a hierarchical candidate preselection technique and allows (a) efficient collection of profiling data, (b) fast partitioning, and (c) high complexity of the hardware partition.

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