Profiling in the ASP codesign environment

Automation of the Hardware/Software Codesign methodology brings with it the need to develop sophisticated high-level profiling tools. This paper presents a profiling tool which uses execution profiling on standard C code to obtain accurate and consistent times at the level of individual compound code sections. This tool is used in the ASP Hardware/Software Codesign project. The results from this tool show that profiling must be performed on dedicated hardware which is as close as possible to the final implementation, as opposed to a workstation.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1995
• Where: ISSS
• Authors: Matthew F. Parkinson, Sri Parameswaran
• Keywords: Hardware, Hardware/software Codesign, Hardware/software Codesign Methodology, ISSS 1995, Profiling Tool