Impact of Hardware/Software Partitioning and MicroBlaze FPGA Configurations on the Embedded Systems Performances - Complex System Modelling and Control Through Intelligent Soft Computations - page 725

Table 9 Bene ts of our design approach compared to the existing ones
Traditional design approaches Recent design approaches Our design approaches '

Design
time

Time required for
soft-core
con guration

Time required for specifying all
con gurations + 20 mS for syn-
thesizing each con guration

Time required for specifying all
con gurations + 20 mS for
synthesizing each con guration

Time required for specifying all con gura-
tions + 20 mS for synthesizing each
con guration (if node is not in the library)

Time required for
hardware/software
architecture
selection

Manually: long time: long deci-
sion time

Long time: specication has to
be written in a low-level
specication

Medium: specication is written in a high-
level specication

Time required for
hardware/software
partitioning

Long time: time required for the
manually coding for both soft-
ware and hardware architecture

Medium:
time required for the automatic
generation of codes for a spec-
ied architecture

Medium:
time required for the automatic generation
of codes for choosing architecture

Flexibility Ye No Yes

Portability Yes No Yes

Execution time Very high Medium Medium

Area consumption High Reduced Reduced