Design space exploration for a wireless protocol on a reconfigurable platform

This paper describes a design space exploration experiment for a real application from the embedded networking domain - the physical layer of a wireless protocol. The application models both control oriented as well as data processing functions, and hence requires composing tasks from different models of computation. We show how the cost and performance of communication and computation can be quickly evaluated, with a reasonable modeling cost. While the example uses a specific tool, the methodology and results can be used in a more general context.