Fast Design Space Exploration Method for Reconfigurable Architectures
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In this paper we propose an original and fast design space exploration method targeting reconfigurable architectures. This method takes place during the first steps of a design flow that works at the algorithmic level. It uses as input a high level specification of the application and is based on a functional model to describe the architectures to compare. This paper describes the projection step of the flow and presents an allocation heuristic that is based on communication costs reduction.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003