Towards a Design Space Exploration Tool for MPSoC Platforms Designs: A Case Study

The deployment of an application onto a multicore archi- tecture is often a long and difficult process. This is due to the fact that the characteristics of both the architecture and the application are taken into account late in the development process. It\´s therefore necessary to have tools pruning the solution space efficiently and accurately. In order to define such a tool, this work defines the basic metrics and step for a design space exploration ("DSE") flow. To this end our proposal have been tested and validated for a space application that requires both a high computing power and an architecture compatible with the space constraints. The results obtained are promising and have shown the viability of the approach.