Multicriteria codesign optimization for embedded multimedia communication system

In the beginning of the new century, many information appliance (IA) produc ts will replace traditional electronic appliances to help people in smart, efficient, and low-cost ways. These successful products must be capable of communicating multimedia information, which is embedded into the electronic appliances with high integration, innovation, and power-throughput tradeof f. In this paper, we develop a codesign procedure to analyze, compare, and emulate the multimedia communication applications to find the candidate imp lementations under different criteria. The experimental results demonstrate that in general memory technology dominates the optimal tradeoff and ALU i mprovements impact greatly on particular applications. The results also sho w that the proposed procedure is effective and quite efficient.