... (iv) the totalised values for area Atotal , Stotal , and time Ttotal ; the time based degree of parallelism γt the ranks of all vertices; the density ρ of the system graph These values can be achieved ... hardware-software systems, Ph.D thesis, University of California, Berkeley, Calif, USA, 1995 ´ ´ [13] P Arato, Z A Mann, and A Orb´ n, “Algorithmic aspects of a hardware/software partitioning, ” ACM Transactions ... automating the system partitioning as much as possible For the last 15 years, system partitioning has been a research field starting with first approaches being rather theoretic in their nature up to quite...