Application-Driven Optimization of VLIW Architectures: A Hardware-Software Approach
Additional information
Authors
Ferrante A.,
Piscopo G.,
Scaldaferri S.
Type
Article in conference proceedings
Year
2005
Language
English
Abstract
A large number of embedded multimedia applications are characterized by high instruction-level parallelism (ILP) expecially in the most critical internal loop bodies. Very Large Instruction Word (VLIW) architectures Application Specific Instruction Set Processors (ASIP) are best suited to exploit such parallelism. Fast design space exploration and optimization of VLIW architecture to a specific application target is increasingly becoming the crucial factor to achieve higher efficiency designs in a relatively small amount of time. In this paper we propose an example of VLIW architecture application driven optimization using the VEX (VLIW Example) system. A typical image processing application, the Imaging Pipeline, has been chosen as an example.
Conference proceedings
RTAS ''05: Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Real Time on Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium
Month
March
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
Start page number
128
End page number
137
Meeting place
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN
0-7695-2302-1
Keywords
design space exploration, embedded systems, HW/SW co-design, HW/SW partitioning, system level design, very long instruction words (VLIW)
