Design space exploration for future TriMedia CPUs
Frans Sijstermans, E.-J.D. Pol, B. Riemens, Kees Vissers, S. Rathnam, Gert A. Slavenburg · 2002
It is widely recognized that fine-grain parallelism can greatly enhance a processor's performance for signal processing applications. For this reason, future generation TriMedias will combine VLIW and subword parallelism in a single CPU. We present a snapshot of the new CPUs design process: the outlines are clear but fine tuning is still ongoing. We present the design flow and 'workbench' that the designers use for further tuning.