Efficient architectural design space exploration via predictive modeling

Efficient design space exploration for embedded systems

Design space exploration is an important factor in embedded systems design. During several steps in a state-of-the-art design flow, designers have to decide between many design alternatives. The decisions are located at various levels of abstraction. In addition, the choices affect several design goals, the alternatives therefore represent a multi-criteria decision problem. Further, the space o...

Multi-objective efficient design space exploration and architectural synthesis of an application specific processor (ASP)

As the growth of system complexity rapidly increases, the gap between Electronic System Level (ESL) and the Register Transfer Level (RTL) must be filled. Currently, Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) and Systemon-Chip (SoC) designs are multi-objective in nature, requiring simultaneous fulfillment of multiple parameters. Extensive research on Design Space Exploration (DSE) problems and synthesi...

Microarchitecture Modeling for Design-space Exploration

To identify the best processor designs, designers explore a vast design space. To assess the quality of candidate designs, designers construct and use simulators. Unfortunately, simulator construction is a bottleneck in this design-space exploration because existing simulator construction methodologies lead to long simulator development times. This bottleneck limits exploration to a small set o...

Machine learning predictive modelling high-level synthesis design space exploration

A machine learning-based predictive model design space exploration (DSE) method for high-level synthesis (HLS) is presented. The method creates a predictive model for a training set until a given error threshold is reached and then continues with the exploration using the predictive model avoiding time-consuming synthesis and simulations of new configurations. Results show that the authors’ met...

A Power Aware Cache and Register File Design Space Exploration