- Configware/Software-Co-Compilation
Software/Configware Co-Compilation is used for
Reconfigurable Computing to generate the code for both, an instruction-stream-basedmicroprocessor and a reconfigurable accelerator interfaced to it. Such a co-compiler (see figure) has a partitioner which accepts input from a high level language source, such as, for instance a programming language, or the output from tools likeMATLAB , and automatically partitions it into parallelizable parts suitable for the reconfigurable accelerator and the rest for running on the microprocessor. Byloop transformation s the partitioner converts the parallelizable parts into aconfigware source, which is compiled by aConfigware Compiler generatingconfigware code for the configuration of the reconfigurable accelerator like, for instance an FPGA, or a coarse-grained reconfigurable array, andflowware code for organizing the data streams going from and to the accelerator.Further reading
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1995 J. Becker, et al.: A Novel Two-Level Hardware/Software Co-Design Framework; Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, Special Issue on Electronic Design Automation, Dec. 1995
*1995 J. Becker, et al.: A Profiling-driven Hardware/Software Partitioning of High-Level Language Specifications; Workshop on Logic and Architecture Synthesis, Grenoble, France, Dec. 1995
*1996 J. Becker, et al.: CoDe-X: A Novel Two-Level Hardware/Software Co-Design Framework; 9th International Conference on VLSI Design, Bangalore, India, Jan. 1996External links
* [http://xputers.informatik.uni-kl.de/staff/hartenstein/lot/invited.html#phd-becker Juergen Becker: A Partitioning Compiler for Computers with Xputer-based Accelerators; Ph. D. thesis, 1995]
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