Software-Oriented System-Level Simulation for Design Space Exploration of Reconfigurable Architectures

摘要

To efficiently utilize the functionality of dynamic reconfig-urable computing systems, it is imperative that a software-oriented approach for modeling complex hardware/software systems be adopted. To achieve this, we need to enhance the simulation environment to understand these dynamic reconfiguration requirements during system-level modeling. We present a flexible simulation model which is able to produce multiple views/contexts for a given problem. We use this model to examine each view for the mapping space, bandwidth, reconfiguration requirements, and configuration patterns of each computational problem.