Multi-processor system-on-chip (MPSoC) simulators are many orders of magnitude slower than the hardware they simulate due to increasing architectural complexity. In this paper, we propose a new application sampling technique to accelerate the simulation of MPSoC design space exploration (DSE). The proposed technique dynamically combines simultaneously executed phases, thus generating a sampling...

This paper presents a design assistance framework for online design process monitoring and design space exploration in concurrent integrated environments. The approach is based on an extension of Predicate Transition Nets as a modelling paradigm. This modelling paradigm provides a formal semantics for the concurrent behaviour of design processes. The presented approach allows the exploration of...

To meet the tightening requirements on network hardware, the design of programmable processors with networkoptimized hardware, that is, network or protocol processors, has recently attracted interest. In this paper we address the problem of evaluating different architectural configurations for such processors. The proposed methodology enables easy and fast experimentation with different protoco...

Instead of treating inventory items as static resources, future intelligent warehouses will transcend containers to Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) that actively and autonomously participate in the optimization of the logistical processes. Consequently, new challenges that are system-immanent for the massive Internet of Things (IoT) context, such as channel access in a shared communication medium,...

Designing embedded system is a non-trivial task during which wrong choices can lead to extremely costly re-design loops. The extra cost is even higher when wrong choices are made during the algorithm speci cation and mapping over the selected architecture. In this paper we propose a high-level approach for design space exploration, based on a usual standard language. More precisely we present t...

An extensible and configurable processor is a programmable platform offering the possibility to customize the instruction set and/or underlying microarchitecture. Efficient application analysis can identify the application parameters and instruction extensions that would influence processor performance. An application characterization flow is presented and demonstrated on the Wavelet/Scalar Qua...

An Application Specific Instruction set Processor (ASIP) is a processor designed for a particular application or for a set of applications. An ASIP exploits special characteristics of application(s) to meet the desired performance, cost and power requirements. ASIP Design Space Exploration can be carried out by one of the two popular available techniques as Simulator or Scheduler based approach...

1 A Solution Methodology for Exact Design Space Exploration in a Three-Dimensional Design Space1 Samit Chaudhuri 2 Stephen A. Blythe3 Robert A. Walker 4 Cadence Design Systems Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Kent State University San Jose, CA 95134 Troy, NY 12180 Kent, OH 44242 Abstract| This paper describes an exact solution methodology, implemented in Rensselaer's Voyager design space explor...