Area and Delay Estimation in Hardware/Software Cosynthesis for Digital Signal Processor Cores

摘要

Hardware/software partitioning is one of the key processes in a hardware/software cosynthesis system for dig- ital signal processor cores. In hardware/software partitioning, area and delay estimation of a processor core plays an impor- tant role since the hardware/software partitioning process must determine which part of a processor core should be realized by hardware units and which part should be realized by a sequence of instructions based on execution time of an input application program and area of a synthesized processor core.