An Effective Heuristic-Based Approach for Partitioning

作者:Zhao, Xibin; Zhang, Hehua; Jiang, Yu*; Song, Songzheng; Jiao, Xun; Gu, Ming
来源:Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2013, 2013: 138037.
DOI:10.1155/2013/138037

摘要

As being one of the most crucial steps in the design of embedded systems, hardware/software partitioning has received more concern than ever. The performance of a system design will strongly depend on the efficiency of the partitioning. In this paper, we construct a communication graph for embedded system and describe the delay-related constraints and the cost-related objective based on the graph structure. Then, we propose a heuristic based on genetic algorithm and simulated annealing to solve the problem near optimally. We note that the genetic algorithm has a strong global search capability, while the simulated annealing algorithm will fail in a local optimal solution easily. Hence, we can incorporate simulated annealing algorithm in genetic algorithm. The combined algorithm will provide more accurate near-optimal solution with faster speed. Experiment results show that the proposed algorithm produce more accurate partitions than the original genetic algorithm.

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