Spacewalker: Automated Design Space Exploration for Embedded Computer Systems

Snider, Greg

HP Development Company

关键词: design space exploration;    VLIW;    systolic array;    cache;   

RP-ID  :  HPL-2001-220

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: HP Labs

【 摘 要 】

This paper addresses the problem of automated design of a computer system for an embedded application. The computer system to be designed consists of a VLIW processor and/or a customized systolic array, along with a cache subsystem comprising a data cache, instruction cache and second-level unified cache. Several algorithms for "walking" the design space are described, and experimental results of custom designed systems for two applications are presented. 24 Pages