A Novel Framework for Applying Multiobjective GA and PSO Based Approaches for Simultaneous Area, Delay, and Power Optimization in High Level Synthesis of Datapaths

Table 1

Comparison of WSGA and power-aware WSGA.

Benchmark	WSGA without power optimization [2]			Power-aware WSGA			Reduction in power cost metric
	Power metric	Area; (register units)	Delay; (time steps)	Power metric	Area; (register units)	Delay; (time steps)
IIR	0.9062	42.9	5.44	0.8996	48.48	5.15	0.73%
HAL	0.9911	38.33	4.74	0.8719	37.81	4.98	12%
FIR	0.6487	42.73	11.63	0.6029	54.48	11.32	7%
MPEG	0.6317	81.5	8.50	0.6046	107.5	9.00	17%