SystemC-based design space exploration of a 3D graphics acceleration SoC for consumer electronics

Abstract

In order to solve the system performance bottleneck of a 3D graphics acceleration SoC, we exploit design space exploration on performance evaluation and benchmark characteristics using SystemC We find out the bottleneck according to the simulation results of 9 hardware/software configurations and find out the tradeoffs between different configurations. The performance issues of SoC have been explored under the low-cost constraints, such as cache size effect, hardware accelerations and memory traffic. In conclusions, we provide the performance/cost tradeoffs and 3D graphics benchmark features for designing a 3D graphics SoC © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2007.