P-Ware: A precise and scalable component-based simulation tool for embedded multiprocessor industrial applications

Author

Assayad, Ismail ; Yovine, Sergio

Author_Institution

VERIMAG, Gieres, France

fYear

2007

fDate

29-31 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

181

Lastpage

188

Abstract

We present a component-based framework and its supporting simulation tool for joint software-hardware modelling and performance analysis of multiprocessor embedded systems. This joint evaluation enables predicting the impact of hardware configuration on software performance and hardware capability to accommodate other services at design time. The experiments carried out on several real- life industrial-size applications show that our framework is scalable while achieving fast simulation speeds, and delivers correct performance trends which are successfully used for identifying and improving limiting performance factors.

Keywords

digital simulation; electronic engineering computing; embedded systems; hardware-software codesign; microprocessor chips; multiprocessing systems; object-oriented programming; software performance evaluation; P-Ware; component-based framework; hardware configuration; multiprocessor embedded system; real-life industrial-size applications; scalable component-based simulation tool; software performance; software-hardware modeling; Analytical models; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Delay; Embedded software; Hardware; Performance analysis; Software performance; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital System Design Architectures, Methods and Tools, 2007. DSD 2007. 10th Euromicro Conference on

Conference_Location

Lubeck

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-2978-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DSD.2007.4341467

Filename

4341467