Application-driven System-on-Chip system model extraction approach

To cope with increasingly complexity and time-to- market pressure, system-on-chip system modeling is introduced to describe system behavior at the highest abstract level. System modeling helps to separate and cooperate between the steps of system level design. This paper puts forward the application-driven system-on- chip system model extraction approach. The approach extracts application features including control/dataflow, computation/storage and critical tasks features, based on which system models are automatically generated. This approach greatly improves efficiency and correctness of system modeling because it needs not manual work. Moreover, the approach fully excavates and utilizes application features to benefit system level design.