Patent ID: 8578238
Filing Date: 2013-11-05
Classification: H03M

Abstract:
1. A computer based automated method of exploring data decoding methods for allowing selection, for each of the decoding methods, of one approximation and scheduling of data accesses to a memory structure, changed codes of each of the decoding methods by one or more fixed point approximations making use of a pre-defined instruction set being available, wherein at least one of the data decoding methods requires data shuffling operations on the data, the method comprising: loading at least two decoding methods; loading a template of an application specific instruction set processor (ASIP) device having a memory structure and an ASIP core with a pre-defined instruction set; and computing a performance of an execution of each of the approximations on the device, the performance including throughput and power consumption by the ASIP core and power consumption due to data accesses to the memory structure.