High Performance Computing for Embedded System Design: A Case Study
Vincenzo Catania, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Alessandro G. Di Nuovo, Maurizio Palesi, Davide Patti · 2008
In this paper we assess the use of high performance computing in design space exploration of a complex highly parameterized very long instruction word based system-on-a-chip platform. Experiments show that the conventional belief of linear decrease in exploration time as the number of available processors increases is discredited starting from a relatively low number of processors mainly due to communication overhead and I/O bottleneck.