Evolutionary IP assignment for efficient NoC-based system design using multi-objective optimization

Network-on-chip (NoC) are considered the next generation of communication infrastructure, which will be omnipresent in most of industry, office and personal electronic systems. In platform-based methodology, an application is implemented by a set of collaborating intellectual properties (IPs) blocks. In this paper, we use two multi-objective evolutionary algorithms to address the problem of selecting the most adequate set of IPs (from an available library) that best implements the application. The IP selection optimization is driven by the minimization of hardware area, total execution time and power consumption.