Run-time monitoring of communication activities in a rapid prototyping environment

Author

Kirschbaum, A. ; Becker, Jürger ; Glesner, Manfred

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron. Syst., Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Germany

fYear

1998

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

57

Abstract

Architectural decisions in embedded systems design are often based on assumptions about properties of the communication channels. For validating them rapid prototyping combined with run-time monitoring plays a major role. The authors present HarMonIC-a reconfigurable hardware monitoring system for the run-time observation of communication channels. They show how HarMonIC can be used to significantly improve debugging, performance evaluation, and design space exploration of communication architectures in embedded systems

Keywords

computer architecture; performance evaluation; program debugging; real-time systems; software prototyping; system monitoring; HarMonIC; architectural decisions; communication activities; communication architectures; communication channels; debugging; design space exploration; embedded systems design; performance evaluation; rapid prototyping environment; reconfigurable hardware monitoring system; run-time monitoring; validation; Analytical models; Delay; Embedded system; Hardware; Instruments; Microelectronics; Monitoring; Prototypes; Runtime environment; Upper bound;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Rapid System Prototyping, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 Ninth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Leuven

ISSN

1074-6005

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8479-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWRSP.1998.676668

Filename

676668