Methods and Apparatus for Optimizing Applications on Configurable Processors

摘要

The methods and apparatus of the present invention are directed to optimizing configurable processors to assist a designer in efficiently matching a design of an application and a design of a processor. In one aspect, methods and apparatus according to the present invention optimize a hardware architecture having one or more application specific processors. The methods and apparatus include modeling one or more of the application specific processors to generate a simulated hardware architecture and analyzing a compiled program for the simulated hardware architecture to determine one or more resource parameters for one or more program sections of the compiled program. The methods and apparatus provide one or more suggestions for modifying one or more of the application specific processors and the program sections in response to the resource parameter to optimize one or both of the compiled program and the hardware architecture.