Paper:

Rhett D. Hudson, David Lehn, Jason Hess, James Atwell, David Moye, Ken
Shiring, Peter M Athanas, "Spatio-Temporal Partitioning of Computational
Structures onto Configurable Computing Machines," SPIE Proceedings, Vol.
3526, p. 62-71, Configurable Computing: Technology and Applications,
John Schewel; Ed., October 1998.

Abstract:

A complete computing system supports a design path from problem
description to implementation.  The term configurable computing refers
to complete computing systems that support the development of
applications for configurable computing machines. Configurable computing
systems generally include a microprocessor-based host, a configurable
processing array and the tools necessary for capturing the problem and
mapping it into software for the host and configurations for the
hardware. This work proposes a framework for a set of platform
independent configurable computing tools. The proposed tools temporally
partition large designs, described in a textual language, into stages
that can be mapped onto the computing array. The temporal partitions are
spatially partitioned to support multiple FPGA arrays. These results are
then given to platform specific backends that convert the tool's
description of the design into functional FPGA configurations, hardware
controllers and host-based control code.