Integrated requirement evaluation of non-functional system-on-chip properties

In this paper, a novel design and analysis methodology for simulation-based determination of non-functional properties of a system design, like performance, power consumption and temperature is proposed. For simulation acceleration and handling of complexity issues, the design flow includes automated abstraction of component functionality. Specified platform attributes as dynamic power management and formally declared temporal input stimuli are automatically transformed to non-functional SystemC models. The framework implements the ability for automated online and offline analysis of non-functional system-on-chip properties.