Multimedia ASIP SoC codesign based on multicriteria optimization

This paper shows how to codesign a multimedia ASIP (application specific integrated processor) SoC (system-on-chip) to achieve a low-power and high-throughput goal for a consumer device. The codesign methodology applies Pareto's multicriteria optimization technique to analyze and partition the software/hardware, the instruction set and the memory hierarchy of an ASIP to provide a flexible approach of finding the best trade-off between conflicting goals based on a given weight function.