Abstract
Hardware/Software (Hw/Sw) partitioning is a crucial step in Hw/Sw co-design that determines which components of the embedded system could be implemented on hardware and which ones on software. It aims to find a design implementation that fulfils all the specification requirements (functionality, goals and constraints) with a low cost. Most formulations of Hw/Sw partitioning dilemma have proven to NP-hard optimization problem. The firefly algorithm (FA) emerges as a significant tool of Swarm Intelligence that has been applied in many areas of optimization. The main purpose of this paper is to present a modified binary firefly algorithm to solve Hw/Sw partitioning problems. Results are compared with other well-known metaheuristic algorithms: Binary Differential Evolution (BDE) , Discrete Differential Evolution(DDE), Self-adaptive differential evolution algorithm (saBDE), New Modified Binary Differential Evolution (NMBDE), New Binary Differential Evolution(NBDE) , Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm (PSO), and Genetic Algorithm (GA). The computational results show that it produced better results than the all used algorithms.
Highlights
The embedded systems have become omnipresent in a wide variety of applications and typically consist of a combination of hardware components and one or more microprocessors executing software functionalities
Hw/Sw co-design investigates the concurrent design of hardware and software components of complex electronic systems
Binary Firefly Algorithm (BFA)-PEO performs significantly better than all other algorithms
Summary
The embedded systems have become omnipresent in a wide variety of applications and typically consist of a combination of hardware components and one or more microprocessors executing software functionalities. The system designer has the difficult task of selecting the appropriate hardware/software components for building an embedded system for a given application, by satisfying certain constraints. They present colossal business opportunities whose limits are still far from being reached. A succession of steps starting with the specification of the system tasks to their synthesis forms what is called the Co-design process
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