Providing diverse solutions using design space exploration

摘要

A design space exploration (DSE) system automatically discovers viable solutions within a design space. The DSE system operates by creating or receiving a design specification that is described using a design language. The design specification contains a collection of constraints that an acceptable architecture is expected to satisfy. The DSE system then symbolically executes the design specification to provide a logical formula. The DSE system then interacts with a theorem prover module to identify one or more solutions to the formula. Finally, the DSE system converts the solutions into a user-interpretable form (e.g., expressed in the format of the modeling language) for viewing by a user. Each solution pertains to an architecture that satisfies the collection of constraints. The DSE system ensures that the solutions are diverse by disfavoring any solution that is deemed similar to any solution that has been previously encountered.