Convex optimization methods are employed to optimize a real-time (RT) system-on-chip (SoC) under a variety of physical resource-driven constraints, demonstrated on an industry MPEG2 encoder SoC. The power optimization is compared to conventional performance-optimization framework, showing a factor of two and a half saving in power. Convex optimization is shown to be very efficient in a high-level early stage design exploration, guiding computer architects as to the choice of area, voltage, and frequency of the individual components of the Chip Multiprocessor (CMP).
@article{arxiv.1601.07815,
title = {Convex Optimization of Real Time SoC},
author = {L. Yavits and A. Morad and R. Ginosar and U. Weiser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.07815},
year = {2017}
}