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Contents 1 EPIC-Explorer 1.1 A Platform for Design Space Exploration of VLIW Architectures 1.2 About 1.3 What's New ? 1.4 Old news 1.5 Screenshots 1.6 References 1.7 Download

EPIC-Explorer

A Platform for Design Space Exploration of VLIW Architectures

University of Catania
Department of Computer Science and Telecommunications Engineering (DIIT)

About

EPIC Explorer is a open framework for evaluation, in terms of performance, cost and power consumption, of a system based on a parameterized VLIW microprocessor together with the memory hierarchy subsystem following execution of a specific application. It interfaces to the parameterized Trimaran infrastructure that provide powerful compiler and simulation tools for a large class of EPIC/VLIW architectures. Further, EPIC Explorer implements a number of multi-objective DSE algorithms to obtain Pareto-optimal configurations and a set of C++ classes that facilitate the creation of new DSE strategies.

What's New ?

(Nov 23th, 2009) New version, cleaner subspace management. (Gen 22th, 2009) MPI bug-fixed and documented release of Epic Explorer.

Old news

Screenshots

• Main menu>
• Options
• Exploration space edit
• Dynamic stats
• Estimation

References

1. Installation Instructions: See README file provided with Epic-Exlorer source code
2. V. Catania, M. Palesi, D. Patti. Reducing Complexity of Multi-objective Design Space Exploration in VLIW-based Embedded Systems. ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, 2008.
3. V. Catania, M. Palesi, D. Patti. Reducing Complexity of Multi-objective Design Space Exploration in VLIW-based Embedded Systems. Accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization.
4. G.Ascia, V.Catania, M.Palesi, D.Patti. A System-level Framework for Evaluating Area/Performance/Power Trade-offs of VLIW-based Embedded Systems. Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 2005, Shanghai, Cina, Jan. 18-21, 2005.
5. G.Ascia, V.Catania, M.Palesi, and D.Patti. Multi-Objective Optimization of a Parameterized VLIW Architecture. In NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, Seattle, Washington, USA, Jun.24--26 2004.
6. G.Ascia, V.Catania, M.Palesi, and D.Patti. EPIC-Explorer: A parameterized VLIW-based platform framework for design space exploration. In First Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia (ESTIMedia), Newport Beach, California, USA, Oct. 3--4 2003.

Download

• Latest Release>
• Reference manual (coming soon)

You can also try to download (at your own risk) latest svn:

svn co https://epic-explorer.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/epic-explorer epic-explorer