A Design Space Exploration Methodology for Application Specific MPSoC Design

System designers need to perform design-space exploration (DSE) to find appropriate number and type of processing elements (PEs) to be present in a Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoC) to support a throughput-constrained application. This paper presents a DSE methodology that provides application to MPSoC architecture mappings, where different PEs get used. The methodology starts from a mapping using only one type of processors and evaluates different mappings by increasing heterogeneity to improve the performance.