Design Exploration for High-Performance Pipelines y

Exploration plays an important role in the design of high-performance pipelines. We propose an exploration strategy for varying three design parameters by using a performance-constrained component selection and pipelin-ing algorithm on dierent \architectures". The architec-ture is specied manually by using a mix of behavioral and structural constructs, while the component selection and pipelining is performed automatically using our algorithms. Results on two industrial-strength DSP systems, indicate the eectiveness of our strategy in exploring a large design space within a matter of seconds.