Title :
Software estimation using a generic-processor model
Author :
Gong, Jie ; Gajski, Daniel D. ; Narayan, Sanjiv
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Irvine, CA, USA
Abstract :
Previous work in hardware-software co-design has addressed issues in system modeling, partitioning, and mixed module simulation and integration. Software estimation, which provides software metrics to assist hardware-software partitioning, has not been extensively studied. We present a generic-processor model for estimating execution time and program-memory size of a specification to be executed on a given processor. Experiments have shown that our estimator is fairly accurate and fast when applied to a wide variety of designs
Keywords :
computer architecture; formal specification; software metrics; systems analysis; execution time; generic-processor model; hardware-software co-design; mixed module simulation; partitioning; program-memory size; software estimation; software metrics; specification; system modeling; Computational modeling; Computer science; Computer simulation; Costs; Delay; Hardware; Partitioning algorithms; Software measurement; System-level design; Timing;
Conference_Titel :
European Design and Test Conference, 1995. ED&TC 1995, Proceedings.
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7039-8
DOI :
10.1109/EDTC.1995.470355
