Chapter 26. Hardware/Software Partitioning
Frank Vahid, Greg StittDepartment of Computer Science and EngineeringUniversity of California–Riverside
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) excel at implementing applications as highly parallel custom circuits, thus yielding fast performance. However, large applications implemented on a microprocessor may be more size efficient and require less designer effort, at the expense of slower performance. In some cases, mapping an entire application to a microprocessor satisfies performance requirements and so is preferred. In other cases, mapping an application entirely to custom circuits on FPGAs may be necessary to meet performance requirements. In many cases, though, the best implementation lies somewhere ...
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