Paper Info
Title
A Co-Design Platform For Algorithm/Architecture Design Exploration
Abstract
The efficient implementation of multimedia algorithms, for the ever increasing complexity of the specifications and the emergence of the new generation of processing platforms characterized by multicore and multicomponent parallel architectures, requires appropriate design space exploration procedures as preliminary step for any implementation. This paper describes a new platform aiming at supporting the algorithm and architecture co-exploration starting by a pure software specification that is gradually transformed into a possibly mixed SW and HW implementation. The process is based on profiling capabilities supported by the new platform specifically conceived to study and optimize data flows and data transfers between SW and HW modules. Different explicit or implicit (i.e. virtual memory extensions) data transfer modes can be profiled in the co-exploration process, by using minimal SW reconfiguration, thus minimizing any SW/HW re-writing effort in the co-exploration stage. Such optimization capabilities can be used to achieve different optimization objectives such as the optimization of memory architectures or low power designs by appropriate minimization of data transfers. Experimental results and an example of the usage of the platform are provided for the design case of a motion estimation module for video encoding.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/ICME.2008.4607623
2008 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA AND EXPO, VOLS 1-4
Keywords
Field
DocType
SW/HW co-design, design space exploration, virtual socket platform
Data modeling,Computer architecture,Algorithm design,Computer science,Profiling (computer programming),Virtual memory,Algorithm,Software architecture,Software requirements specification,Design space exploration,Control reconfiguration
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.38
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christophe Lucarz117121.05
Marco Mattavelli253673.02
Julien Dubois314618.76