Energy-efficient hardware/software co-synthesis for a class of applications on reconfigurable SoCs

International Journal of Embedded Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 91-102

  Ou, Jingzhao ^a   Choi, Seonil B ^b   Prasanna, Viktor K ^c  

^a XILINX INC   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

energy efficiency; hardware software; reconfigurable; synthesis; system on chip

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899645989     PISSN: 17411068     EISSN: 17411076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijes.2005.008811     Document Type: Article

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