RECOD: a retiming heuristic to optimize resource and memory utilization in HW/SW codesigns

Hardware/software designs of embedded systems are characterized by stringent performance constraints. Pipelined implementation of a design is an effective way for maximizing the performance of a design. In this paper we present a novel retiming heuristic to obtain pipelined schedules for hardware-software codesigns. The heuristic aims at maximizing the throughput of a loop oriented resource constrained codesign while minimizing its shared memory usage. The effectiveness of the proposed technique is demonstrated by experimentation.