Using Genetic Algorithms for Hardware Core Placement and Mapping in NoC-Based Reconfigurable Systems

Table 1

Characteristics of synthetic applications.

Application	Fixed cores	Reconfigurable cores
		Sc 1	Sc 2	Sc 3	Sc 4	Sc 5
Alpha	6	2	2	3	N/A	N/A
Beta	4	3	5	2	4	N/A
Gamma	7	3	5	5	3	3