Hardware/software partitioning of software binaries

Partitioning an embedded system application among a microprocessor and custom hardware has been shown to improve the performance, power or energy of numerous examples. The advent of single-chip microprocessor/FPGA platforms makes such partitioning even more attractive. Previous partitioning approaches have partitioned sequential program source code, such as C or C++. We introduce a new approach that partitions at the software binary level. Although source code partitioning is preferable from a purely technical viewpoint, binary-level partitioning provides several very practical benefits for commercial acceptance. We demonstrate that binary-level partitioning yields competitive speedup results compared to source-level partitioning, achieving an average

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: ICCAD
• Authors: Greg Stitt, Frank Vahid
• Keywords: Binary-level Partitioning, Binary-level Partitioning Yields, ICCAD 2002, Source Code Partitioning