Profiling tools for hardware/software partitioning of embedded applications
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Language, compiler, and tool for embedded systems
Profiling soft-core processor applications for hardware/software partitioning
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
Static Code Analysis of Functional Descriptions in SystemC
DELTA '06 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Design, Test and Applications
A SystemC Refinement Methodology for Embedded Software
IEEE Design & Test
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Simulation monitoring tools are needed in hardware/software codesign for performance debugging, model validation and hardware/software partitioning purposes. Existing tools are either hardware- or software-centric and lack integrated and seamless co-monitoring. This paper presents a system-level co-monitoring tool that can monitor the computation and communication activities of SystemC user modules, as well as bus, memory and processor usage, on a variety of hardware/software embedded configurations that may include an RTOS. We also describe how performance metrics are generated during or after simulation and made accessible to users or external applications. Finally, experimental results show that such co-monitoring does not disturb the simulation's internal timing and only moderately increases the simulation's wall clock run time (by 11-22% for hardware/software partitioned architectures).