TEAM MEMBERS :	Devang Sachdev
		Lizheng Zhang

TITLE :		Hardware - Software Partitioning

ABSTRACT: Traditionally when creating DSP systems, designers partition
the hardware and software early in the process.  Hardware and software
engineers design their respective components in isolation, and
communication between the two groups is minimal.  There are several
drawbacks to this approach.  As a result, hardware-software codesign
(HSC) has gained considerable momentum in industry and academia in the
last decade.  HSC integrates the principles of hardware and software
design and provides structured methods and tools that focus on extensive
modeling and simulation-based verification.  Hardware software
partitioning is one the important phases of codesign.  In this project
we evaluate effect of various partitioning planes on HW-SW co-design
architecture, consisting of single SW processor, a HW coprocessor
(FPGA), shared memory for HW-SW communication and SW local memory, by
mapping very basic DSP algorithms.  We implement an example application
on the co-design platform with! varying and HW functions.