Facta universitatis - series: Electronics and Energetics 2014 Volume 27, Issue 3, Pages: 317-328
https://doi.org/10.2298/FUEE1403317S
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Rapid exploration of cost-performance tradeoffs using dominance effect during design of hardware accelerators
Sedaghat Reza (Ryerson University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Toronto, Canada)
Sengupta Anirban (Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, India)
Modern Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) designs require a tradeoff between
cost efficiency and performance (circuit speed). Furthermore, the Design
Space Exploration (DSE) of the cost-performance tradeoffs for the multi
objective VLSI designs should also be fast and efficient in nature. This
paper presents a novel accelerated DSE approach for the exploration of
cost-performance tradeoffs of modular multi (trio parametric. viz. cost,
execution time and power consumption) objective VLSI hardware accelerators
using hierarchical criterion analysis. The selection of the final design
point is made after the tradeoffs are explored using the proposed approach.
Results of the proposed approach when applied to various benchmarks yielded
significant acceleration in the exploration process compared to current
existing approaches with multi parametric objective.
Keywords: hardware accelerator, rapid, exploration, performance, cost