Architectural exploration for datapaths with memory hierarchy
Nancy D. Holmes, Daniel D. Gajski · 1995
In this paper, we present a new design-space exploration algorithm, the architecture explorer (AE), for analyzing performance/cost tradeo s in memory-intensive applications. AE evaluates FU, bus, and memory cost for a series of performance constraints to produce aperformance/cost tradeo curve. Unlike previous approaches, AE handles both hierarchical and non-hierarchical memory architectures with various speeds of memory. 1