Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition Volume I (DATE'04) Fast Exploration of Parameterized Bus Architecture for Communication-Centric SoC Design Paris, France February 16-February 20 ISBN: 0-7695-2085-5
For successful SoC design, efficient and scalable communication architecture is crucial. Some bus interconnects now provide configurable structures to meet this requirement of an SoC design. Furthermore, bus IP vendors provide software tools that automatically generate RTL codes of a bus once its designer configures it. Configurability, however, imposes more challenges upon designers because complexity involved in optimization increases exponentially as the number of parameters grows. In this paper, we present a novel approach with which effort requirement can be dramatically reduced. An automated optimization tool we developed is used and it exploits a genetic algorithm for fast design exploration. This paper shows that the time for the optimizing task can be reduced by more than 90% when the tool is used and, more significantly the task can be done without an expert?s hand while ending up with a better solution.
Index Terms:
Platform-based design, Bus Configuration, Optimization, SoC design, genetic algorithm
Citation:
Chulho Shin, Young-Taek Kim, Eui-Young Chung, Kyu-Myung Choi, Jeong-Taek Kong, Soo-Kwan Eo, "Fast Exploration of Parameterized Bus Architecture for Communication-Centric SoC Design," date, vol. 1, pp.10352, Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition Volume I (DATE'04), 2004 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||