Abstract
In this paper, we present an RTL design space exploration method for early designplanning. We formulate the RTL design space exploration into a performance-diventiming-budget assignment problem. We present a dynamic programming algorithm anda heuristic to solve the problem. We also present an integrated RTL/logic synthesisand physical design flow to perform RTL design space exploration. Experimental resultshave demonstrated that the proposed method can effectively perform design spaceexploration at RTL.