Combining UML2 application and SystemC platform modelling for performance evaluation of real-time embedded systems

Authors:
Jari Kreku;Mika Hoppari;Tuomo Kestilä;Yang Qu;Juha-Pekka Soininen;Per Andersson;Kari Tiensyrjä
Affiliations:
Communication Platforms, Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), Oulu, Finland;Communication Platforms, Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), Oulu, Finland;Communication Platforms, Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), Oulu, Finland;Nokia Device R&D, Oulu, Finland;Communication Platforms, Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), Oulu, Finland;Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, Lund, Sweden;Communication Platforms, Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), Oulu, Finland
Venue:
EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems - C-Based Design of Heterogeneous Embedded Systems
Year:
2008

Citing 9
Cited 8

YAPI: application modeling for signal processing systems

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Design Automation Conference
A Methodology for Architecture Exploration of Heterogeneous Signal Processing Systems

Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems - Special issue on signal processing systems design and implementation
An Approach for Quantitative Analysis of Application-Specific Dataflow Architectures

ASAP '97 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors
System-Level Performance Analysis in SystemC

Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 1
Workload Simulation Method for Evaluation of Application Feasibility in a Mobile Multiprocessor Platform

DSD '04 Proceedings of the Digital System Design, EUROMICRO Systems
High-level modeling and simulation of single-chip programmable heterogeneous multiprocessors

ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
A Systematic Approach to Exploring Embedded System Architectures at Multiple Abstraction Levels

IEEE Transactions on Computers
UML-based multiprocessor SoC design framework

ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
Transaction-Level Modeling with Systemc: Tlm Concepts and Applications for Embedded Systems

Transaction-Level Modeling with Systemc: Tlm Concepts and Applications for Embedded Systems

Performance evaluation of UML2-modeled embedded streaming applications with system-level simulation

EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems - Special issue on design and architectures for signal and image processing
Characterising embedded applications using a UML profile

SOC'09 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on System-on-chip
Automatic workload generation for system-level exploration based on modified GCC compiler

Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
A state-based modeling approach for efficient performance evaluation of embedded system architectures at transaction level

Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Special issue on ESL Design Methodology
Application Workload Modelling via Run-Time Performance Statistics

International Journal of Embedded and Real-Time Communication Systems
Early-phase performance exploration of embedded systems with ABSOLUT framework

Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
Performance evaluation of an automotive distributed architecture based on a high speed power line communication protocol using a transaction level modeling approach

Journal of Real-Time Image Processing
A Case Study of Simulation and Performance Evaluationof a SDR Baseband Architecture

Journal of Signal Processing Systems

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Future mobile devices will be based on heterogeneous multiprocessing platforms accommodating several stand-alone applications. The network-on-chip communication and device networking combine the design challenges of conventional distributed systems and resource constrained real-time embedded systems. Interoperable design space exploration for both the application and platform development is required. Application designer needs abstract platform models to rapidly check the feasibility of a new feature or application. Platform designer needs abstract application models for defining platform computation and communication capacities. We propose a layered UML application/workload and SystemC platform modelling approach that allow application and platform to be modelled at several levels of abstraction, which enables early performance evaluation of the resulting system. The overall approach has been experimented with a mobile video player case study, while different load extraction methods have been validated by applying them to MPEG-4 encoder, Quake2 3D game, and MP3 decoder case studies previously.