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标题：An Efficient Performance Estimation Method for Configurable Multi-layer Bus-based SoC
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作者：Salita Sombatsiri ; Yoshinori Takeuchi ; Masaharu Imai 等
期刊名称：Information and Media Technologies
电子版ISSN：1881-0896
出版年度：2015
卷号：10
期号：2
页码：192-203
DOI：10.11185/imt.10.192
出版社：Information and Media Technologies Editorial Board
摘要：This paper proposes an efficient performance estimation method for configurable multi-layer bus-based SoC, which evaluates system performance in an early stage of design process. The proposed method uses data flow information obtained from a system-level profiling, an architecture-independent loosely-timed transaction level simulation, and constructs a system-level execution dependency graph. Then, based on each architecture-level model, the architecture-level execution dependency graph is constructed and analyzed to estimate the performance of each architecture. In the analysis, the behavior details of shared buses and multi-layer bus are determined based on the analyzed dynamic bus contention and bus protocols' features. Experiments were conducted by modeling the multi-layer AHB and applying the method to estimate performance of the architectures executing JPEG encoder application. The proposed method estimates the performance of SoC with less than 8% of errors comparing to the results from accurate RTL simulations.
关键词：electronic system level;configurable multi-layer bus;performance estimation