Parameterized system design

Continued growth in chip capacity has led to new methodologies stressing reuse, not only of pre-designed processing components, but even of entire pre-designed architectures. To be used across a variety of applications, such architectures must be heavily parameterized, so they can adapt to those applications’ differing constraints by trading off power, performance and size. We describe several parameterized system design issues, and provide results showing how a single architecture with easily configurable parameters can support a wide range of tradeoffs. Keywords System-on-a-chip, low power, intellectual property, cache, onchip bus, estimation, system parameters.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: CODES
• Authors: Tony Givargis, Frank Vahid
• Keywords: CODES 2000, Entire Pre-designed Architectures, Methodologies Stressing Reuse, Pre-designed Processing Components, Software Engineering