Hardware/software co-synthesis of distributed embedded systems using genetic programming

Abstract

This work presents a novel approach to hardware-software co-synthesis of distributed embedded systems, based on the developmental genetic programming. Unlike the other genetic approaches where chromosomes represent solutions, in our method chromosomes represent system construction procedures. Thus, not the system architecture but the co-synthesis process is evolved. Finally a tree describing a construction of a final solution is obtained. The optimization process will be illustrated with examples. According to our best knowledge it is the first DGP approach that deals with the hardware-software co-synthesis. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.