Software Performance Estimation in MPSoC Design

- Estimation tools are a key component of system-level methodologies, enabling a fast design space exploration. Estimation of software performance is essential in current software-dominated embedded systems. This work proposes an integrated methodology for system design and performance analysis. An analytic approach based on neural networks is used for high-level software performance estimation. At the functional level, this analytic tool enables a fast evaluation of the performance to be obtained with selected processors, which is an essential task for the definition of a "golden" architecture. From this architectural definition, a tool that refines hardware and software interfaces produces a bus-functional model. A virtual prototype is then generated from the bus-functional model, providing a global, cycle-accurate simulation model and offering several features for design validation and detailed performance analysis. Our work thus combines an analytic approach at functional...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ASPDAC
• Authors: Márcio Oyamada, Flávio Rech Wagner, Marius Bonaciu, Wander O. Cesário, Ahmed Amine Jerraya
• Keywords: Analytic Estimation, ASPDAC 2007, Estimation, Functional Level, Hardware