A multimedia SoC performance evaluation method based on memory access model

More and more complex application cases bring much heavy bandwidth loading problem to SoC architecture. To design a high performance SoC system which supports large amount and high speed data processing capability, an efficient, systematic, and quick performance evaluation of SoC architecture becomes the base requirement for chip success. A novel performance evaluation method based on memory access model is presented in this paper. It can give out accurate and confident estimation result to aid both system level and module level design. It can be used to establish SoC architecture, find the performance bottleneck at the very beginning design step of chip architecture determination, and give out comparing result among different architecture definition. Both design effort and design iteration cycles could be saved.