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System-level simulations are an important part in the design flow for today’s complex systems-on-a-chip. Trade-off analysis during architectural exploration as well as run-time reconfiguration of applications and their mapping require detailed introspection of the dynamic effects on the target platform. Additionally, extra-functional properties like power consumption and performance characteristics are important metrics to assess the quality of a design. In this paper, we present an advanced framework for instrumentation, pre-processing and recording of functional and extra-functional properties in SystemC-based virtual prototyping simulations.The framework is based on a hierarchy of so-called timed value streams, allowing to address the requirements for highly configurable, dynamic architectures while allowing tailored introspection of the required system characteristics under analysis.
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Hartmann, P.A., Grüttner, K., Nebel, W. (2015). Advanced SystemC Tracing and Analysis Framework for Extra-Functional Properties. In: Sano, K., Soudris, D., Hübner, M., Diniz, P. (eds) Applied Reconfigurable Computing. ARC 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9040. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16214-0_12
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