Bridging gap between simulation and spreadsheet study

System architects working on SoC design have traditionally been hampered by the lack of a cohesive methodology for architecture evaluation and co-verification of hardware and software. This paper focuses on a comprehensive analysis framework providing platform assembly facilities, system analysis tools, enhanced traffic model and SystemC TLM IP. This framework has been intensively used to design and analyze complex SOC Interconnect based on STBus protocol such as the one of 71xx families. By hiding the complexity of a simulation and filling the gap towards spreadsheet study and costly On-Chip analysis using traffic model, architects benefit from an easy access to an efficient simulation for performance evaluation.