Towards a Design Space Exploration Tool for MPSoC Platforms Designs: A Case Study

The deployment of an application onto a multicore archi- tecture is often a long and difficult process. This is due to the fact that the characteristics of both the architecture and the application are taken into account late in the development process. It's therefore necessary to have tools pruning the solution space efficiently and accurately. In order to define such a tool, this work defines the basic metrics and step for a design space exploration ("DSE") flow. To this end our proposal have been tested and validated for a space application that requires both a high computing power and an architecture compatible with the space constraints. The results obtained are promising and have shown the viability of the approach.