TY - GEN
T1 - A synchronization profiler for hybrid full system simulation platform
AU - Chen, Kuan Chung
AU - Chen, Chung Ho
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - A hybrid abstraction of a full system simulation platform can provide flexible hardware-and-software co-verification and co-simulation in early stage of system-on-a-chip development. Being a hybrid abstraction for the simulated system, it has the advantage of faster simulation speed; however, its lack of timing information and no performance-metric synchronization mechanism among the different abstraction levels of the simulation models present troubles in doing performance analysis. To facilitate performance evaluations for hybrid abstraction simulation systems, in this paper, we propose a synchronization profiler to enable cross-abstraction level performance analysis and at the same time retain the fast simulation advantage. This approach allows a design engineer to evaluate not only the interactions between an application and its accelerated hardware but also the corresponding device drivers as well as the OS kernel.
AB - A hybrid abstraction of a full system simulation platform can provide flexible hardware-and-software co-verification and co-simulation in early stage of system-on-a-chip development. Being a hybrid abstraction for the simulated system, it has the advantage of faster simulation speed; however, its lack of timing information and no performance-metric synchronization mechanism among the different abstraction levels of the simulation models present troubles in doing performance analysis. To facilitate performance evaluations for hybrid abstraction simulation systems, in this paper, we propose a synchronization profiler to enable cross-abstraction level performance analysis and at the same time retain the fast simulation advantage. This approach allows a design engineer to evaluate not only the interactions between an application and its accelerated hardware but also the corresponding device drivers as well as the OS kernel.
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U2 - 10.1109/SOCDC.2010.5682966
DO - 10.1109/SOCDC.2010.5682966
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79851484866
SN - 9781424486335
T3 - 2010 International SoC Design Conference, ISOCC 2010
SP - 91
EP - 94
BT - 2010 International SoC Design Conference, ISOCC 2010
T2 - 2010 International SoC Design Conference, ISOCC 2010
Y2 - 22 November 2010 through 23 November 2010
ER -