Current state of ASoC design methodology

Forschungszentrum Informatik76131 Karlsruhe, Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14, Germanybsander@fzi.deAbstract. This paper gives an overview of the current state of ASoCdesign methodology and presents preliminary results on evaluating thelearning classi er system XCS for the control of a QuadCore. The ASoCdesign methodology can determine system reliability based on activity,power and temperature analysis, together with reliability block diagrams.The evaluation of the XCS shows that in the evaluated setup, XCS can nd optimal operating points, even in changed environments or withchanged reward functions. This even works, though limited, without thegenetic algorithm the XCS uses internally. The results motivate us tocontinue the evaluation for more complex setups.Keywords. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, System-on-Chip, design method-ology, system reliability, learning classi er system, XCS, ASoC

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