A Design Environment for Counterflow Pipeline Synthesis

The Counterflow Pipeline (CFP) organization may be a good target for synthesis of application-specific microprocessors for embedded systems because it has a regular and simple structure. This paper describes a design environment for tailoring CFP's to an embedded application to improve performance. Our system allows exploring the design space of all possible CFP's for a given embedded application to understand the impact of different design decisions on performance. We have used the environment to derive heuristics that help to find the best CFP for an application. Preliminary results using our heuristics indicate that speed-up for several

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: LCTRTS
• Authors: Bruce R. Childers, Jack W. Davidson
• Keywords: Application-specific Microprocessors, Embedded Application, LCTRTS 1998, Possible Cfp, System Software