The paper presents the parallelizing compilation environment CoDe-X for simultaneous programming of Xputer-based accelerators and their host. The paper introduces its hardware/software co-design strategies at two levels of partitioning. CoDe-X performs both, at first level a profiling-driven host/accelerator partitioning for performance optimization, and at second level a resourcedriven sequential/structural partitioning of the accelerator source code to optimize the utilization of its reconfigurable resources. To stress the significance of this application development methodology, the paper first gives an introduction to the underlying hardware platform.
Citation:
Reiner W. Hartenstein, J?rgen Becker, "A Two-level Co-Design Framework for Xputer-based data-driven reconfigurable Accelerators," hicss, vol. 5, pp.125, 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) Volume 5: Advanced Technology Track, 1997