MULTICUBE

MULTICUBE ('Multi-objective Design Space Exploration of MultiProcessor-SoC Architectures for Embedded Multimedia Applications') is a Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) project aimed to define innovative methods for the design optimization of computer architectures for the embedded system domain. MULTICUBE ('Multi-objective Design Space Exploration of MultiProcessor-SoC Architectures for Embedded Multimedia Applications') is a Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) project aimed to define innovative methods for the design optimization of computer architectures for the embedded system domain. Embedded systems are specialized computing systems for wide domain of applications ranging from mobile phones and wearable electronics for military applications to control systems for automobile, factories and home automation. Even if all these domains are different, they are all characterized by their computational and programmability needs. All these applications need an underlying computing platform specially designed to cater to the application needs. The improvements in Very Large Scale Integrations technology (VLSI) and the availability of the high computational power provided by System-on-a-Chip (SoC) has enabled development of highly sophisticated embedded applications. Today, the computer architectures are often designed in a multi-core paradigm, where more processors are integrated onto the same chip/die. This type of computer architecture can also be referred to as Chip-MultiProcessors (CMP), MultiProcessor-SoC (MPSoC) or, Network On Chip (NoC) where different processors communicate via a network infrastructure. Designing complex systems on chip many platform parameters has to be tuned. This is done in order to maximize platform performances while minimizing non functional costs such as the power consumption. This tuning phase is called Design Space Exploration (DSE). This process can be formalized as a multiobjective optimization problem where non-commensurable objectives have to be maximized (or minimized).