Open AccessA new approach for system-level architecture exploration
Author(s) -
V.D. Zivkovic,
der van Wolf,
E.F. Deprettere,
Kock de Erwin
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
facta universitatis. series electronics and energetics/facta universitatis. series: electronics and energetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2217-5997
pISSN - 0353-3670
DOI - 10.2298/fuee0301103z
Subject(s) - computer science , trace (psycholinguistics) , control flow graph , architecture , graph , the symbolic , symbolic trajectory evaluation , design space exploration , theoretical computer science , embedded system , model checking , art , psychology , philosophy , linguistics , psychoanalysis , visual arts
In this paper, we present a new design-space exploration approach which we call the symbolic program approach. The symbolic program approach is based on both the trace driven approach and the control data flow graph approach. As expected, the trajectory of the symbolic program approach appears somewhere in-between the two extremes mentioned above. Thus, it leads to the shorter simulation time while it can still give fairly accurate performance numbers. Moreover, it produces results that can be readily taken as input for further design. Keywords: System-level, design-space exploration traces, CDFG, symbolic programs.