Optimization as a Driver for Design Space Exploration

3D Architecture Modeling and Exploration

Vertical integration (3D ICs) has demonstrated the potential to reduce inter-block wire latency through flexible block placement and routing. However, there is an untapped potential for 3D ICs to reduce intra-block wire latency through architectural designs that can leverage multiple silicon layers in innovative ways. Furthermore, it is particularly challenging to simultaneously explore the phy...

Hybrid Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization and Harmony Search for Optimum Design of Space Trusses

The Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization (TLBO) algorithm is a new meta-heuristic algorithm which recently received more attention in various fields of science. The TLBO algorithm divided into two phases: Teacher phase and student phase; In the first phase a teacher tries to teach the student to improve the class level, then in the second phase, students increase their level by interacting amon...

A Power Aware Cache and Register File Design Space Exploration

SYMBIOTIC ORGANISMS SEARCH AND HARMONY SEARCH ALGORITHMS FOR DISCRETE OPTIMIZATION OF STRUCTURES

In this work, a new hybrid Symbiotic Organisms Search (SOS) algorithm introduced to design and optimize spatial and planar structures under structural constraints. The SOS algorithm is inspired by the interactive behavior between organisms to propagate in nature. But one of the disadvantages of the SOS algorithm is that due to its vast search space and a large number of organisms, it may trap i...

Network/System Co-Simulation for Design Space Exploration of IoT Applications

With the growing complexity and scale of future Internet of Things (IoT) applications, there is a need for effectively exploring associated design spaces. IoT applications make use of inherently distributed processing. In such networksof-systems (NoS), computation and communication is tightly coupled. Traditional design of networks and systems in isolation ignores how choices in one influence t...