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Task-accurate performance estimation methods are widely applied for design space exploration at the Electronic System Level (ESL). These methods estimate performance by simulating task-level models annotated with nominal execution time. In early design phases, source code, which is necessary for generating accurate annotations, is usually not available. Instead, extrapolated values or even estimated values are used for performance estimation, which makes the results unreliable and may eventually cause performance violations if used to guide critical design decisions. In this paper, we propose a confident task-accurate performance estimation methodology that uses high-level information available in early design phases and provides confident estimation to guide design space exploration with respect to performance constraints.
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Xu, Y., Wang, B., Rosales, R., Hasholzner, R., Teich, J. (2013). On Confident Task-Accurate Performance Estimation. In: Kubátová, H., Hochberger, C., Daněk, M., Sick, B. (eds) Architecture of Computing Systems – ARCS 2013. ARCS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7767. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36424-2_3
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