Ole Bentz, Jan M. Rabaey, and David Lidsky

Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, 1997

The rapid increase in the complexity of systems demands new approaches to design exploration and trade-off analysis. This paper presents an exploration environment that provides a uniform way to perform exploration at the conceptual (pre-specification) stages of design. The environment encapsulates knowledge about how to perform estimations in different application domains, and separates a designer from the mechanics of the estimation process.