ANSI C Front-End enhancement for CUPSHOP HW/SW partitioning tool

Abstract

Embedded systems are ubiquitous; imposing a challenge in time to market. Another main challenge during embedded systems development cycle is partitioning the embedded function into SW and HW modules to meet the stringent area, delay and power constraints. The recently-introduced Cairo University PSo-based Hardware/sOftware Partitioning (CUPSHOP) tool was the first HW/SW partitioning tool to employ Particle Swarm optimization (PSO) to the HW/SW partitioning problem. In this paper we introduce an ANSI C Front-End enhancement for an augmented version of CUPSHOP. This ANSI-C Front-End is capable of handling C input of unlimited levels of hierarchy.