Title :
ArchExplorer for Automatic Design Space Exploration
Author :
Desmet, Veerle ; Girbal, Sylvain ; Ramirez, Alex ; Temam, Olivier ; Vega, Augusto
Author_Institution :
Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium
Abstract :
Growing architectural complexity and stringent time-to-market constraints suggest the need to move architecture design beyond parametric exploration to structural exploration. ArchExplorer is a Web-based permanent and open design-space exploration framework that lets researchers compare their designs against others. The authors demonstrate their approach by exploring the design space of an on-chip memory subsystem and a multicore processor.
Keywords :
electronic design automation; memory architecture; microprocessor chips; ArchExplorer; Web-based permanent; architectural complexity; architecture design; automatic design space exploration; multicore processor; on-chip memory subsystem; open design-space exploration framework; parametric exploration; structural exploration; time-to-market constraints; Adaptation model; Benchmark testing; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Hardware; Prefetching; Space exploration; design-space exploration; methodology; microarchitecture; simulation;
Journal_Title :
Micro, IEEE
