Retargetable profiling for rapid, early system-level design space exploration

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 281-286

  Cai, Lukai ^a   Gerstlauer, Andreas ^a   Gajski, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exploration; Profiling; Retargetable; System Level Design

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN AIDS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); LOGIC DESIGN; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EXPLORATION; PROFILING; RETARGETABLE; SYSTEM LEVEL DESIGN;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 4444250084     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/996566.996651     Document Type: Conference Paper

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