Hardware/software partitioning and pipelining

For a given throughput constrained system-level specification,we present a design flow and an algorithm to select software(general purpose processors) and hardware components,and then partition and pipeline the specification amongstthe selected components.This is done so as to beat satisfythe throughput constraint at minimal hardware cost.Ourability to pipeline the design at several levels, enables us toattain high throughput designs, and also distinguishes ourwork from previously proposed hardware/software partitioning algorithms.