Multi-processor system-on-chip Design Space Exploration based on multi-level modeling techniques

Multi-processor Systems-on-chip are currently designed by using platform-based synthesis techniques. In this approach, a wide range of platform parameters are tuned to find the best trade-offs in terms of the selected system figures of merit (such as energy, delay and area). This optimization phase is called Design Space Exploration (DSE) and it generally consists of a Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) problem.

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