Title :
On MPSoC Software Execution at the Transaction Level
Author :
Pétrot, Frédéric ; Gligor, Marius ; Hamayun, Mian-Muhammed ; Shen, Hao ; Fournel, Nicolas ; Gerin, Patrice
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Grenoble Inst. of Technol., Grenoble, France
Abstract :
This article presents a wide variety of techniques for realizing transaction-level models of the increasingly large-scale multiprocessor systems on chip. It describes how such models of hardware allow subsequent software integration and system performance evaluation.
Keywords :
multiprocessing systems; software engineering; system-on-chip; MPSoC software execution; software integration; transaction level; Computational modeling; Multicore processing; Performance evaluation; System-on-a-chip; Transaction databases; MPSoC modeling; code interpretation; design and test; hardware-software simulation; native simulation; performance estimation; software simulation;
Journal_Title :
Design & Test of Computers, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MDT.2010.118