Architectural exploration for datapaths with memory hierarchy

In this paper, we present a new design-space exploration algorithm, the architecture explorer (AE), for analyzing performance/cost tradeoffs in memory-intensive applications. AE evaluates FU, bus, and memory cost for a series of performance constraints to produce a performance/cost tradeoff curve. Unlike previous approaches, AE handles both hierarchical and non-hierarchical memory architectures with various speeds of memory.<
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