Design Space Exploration for Architectural Synthesis-A Survey

Design Space Exploration (DSE) is the process of exploring design alternatives and it is iterative in nature. It includes a vast set of design choices and relies largely on the decision of the architect. The number of design constructs for a particular design is huge and it exponentially increases the problem complexity. To speed up the exploration process, many algorithms that find the optimal designs automatically have been proposed. This work presents a survey on the different techniques proposed to solve the Design Space Exploration problem by reducing the design space-time in order to provide good insight to researchers for further exploration.