Title
Instruction-set architecture exploration of VLIW ASIPs using a genetic algorithm
Abstract
Genetic algorithms are commonly used for automatically solving complex design problem because exploration using genetic algorithms can consistently deliver good results when the algorithm is given a long enough run-time. However, the exploration time for problems with huge design spaces can be very long, often making exploration using a genetic algorithm practically infeasible. In this work, we present a genetic algorithm for exploring the instruction-set architecture of VLIW ASIPs and demonstrate its effectiveness by comparing it to two heuristic algorithms. We present several optimizations to the genetic algorithm configuration, and demonstrate how caching of intermediate compilation and simulation results can reduce the exploration time by an order of magnitude.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/MECO.2014.6862720
Embedded Computing
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
design space exploration,genetic algorithm,instruction-set very-long instruction word,bioinformatics,optimization,genetic algorithms,computer architecture,genomics,sociology
Conference
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.69
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jordans, Roel140.69
Jozwiak, Lech240.69
Corporaal, Henk351.13