A system level implementation strategy and partitioning heuristic for LUT-based applications

Partitioning an application among interacting hardware and software components is an important part of system design. In this paper, we introduce a new implementation strategy and partitioning heuristic, well adapted to applications that are composed of functions that can either be implemented in software or in hardware as lookup tables (LUT). Simulation results are presented to show the performance and speedup that the method can achieve.