Automatic Application-Specific Customization of Multi-Processor Microarchitecture

Reconfigurable logic devices offer new and interesting opportunities for application-specific customization and processor configuration. However, the most compelling optimization problems in this area are NP-hard. In our preliminary work, we customized the microarchitecture of a single processor core for a target application by viewing it as a multi-objective constrained integer nonlinear optimization problem. Our results demonstrated the validity, feasibility, and scalability of that approach [9]. Here, we propose extensions to customize the microarchitecture of multiple processor cores.