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The article presents a study on the development of Signal-Processing On-Demand Architecture (SODA), programmable architecture in supporting Software-Defined Radio (SDR). It investigates the use of Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) and 802.11A protocols to SODA in providing the power performance requirements to the mobile terminal. It highlights the SDR solution that requires extraordinary amounts of computation on mobile device's power budget, which needs to bring the power of a supercomputer to mobile devices to reach the performance requirement.

This article focuses on compiler-directed architecture synthesis. The study combines traditional design space exploration and compiler-directed architecture synthesis. Hierarchically dividing the design space reduces the search space without artificially constraining the degree of specialization permitted for any aspect. The search covers basic capabilities that define the processor's overall parallelism, and the compiler determines the detailed architecture that realizes the parallelism. The authors examine compiler-directed synthesis of an application-specific instruction processor's (ASIP) data patch architecture. ASIPs provide highly specialized computation capabilities to meet an application's specific needs. Sophisticated dependence, control flow, and dataflow analysis techniques permit the discovery of an application's computation and communication structure. The compiler can exploit the discovered structure and transform the application to create high-performance, cost-effective ASIPs.