Title :
High Performance Computing for Embedded System Design: A Case Study
Author :
Catania, Vincenzo ; De Francisci Morales, Gianmarco ; Di Nuovo, A.G. ; Palesi, Maurizio ; Patti, Davide
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Ing. Inf. e delle Telecomun., Univ. degli Studi di Catania, Catania
Abstract :
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.
Keywords :
embedded systems; system-on-chip; I-O bottleneck; communication overhead; design space exploration; embedded system design; high performance computing; system-on-a-chip platform; very long instruction word; Computer architecture; Design methodology; Digital systems; Embedded system; High performance computing; Space exploration; System-on-a-chip; Telecommunications; Time to market; VLIW;
Conference_Titel :
Digital System Design Architectures, Methods and Tools, 2008. DSD '08. 11th EUROMICRO Conference on
Conference_Location :
Parma
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3277-6
DOI :
10.1109/DSD.2008.110
