Title :
Profiling in the ASP codesign environment
Author :
Parkinson, Matthew F. ; Parameswaran, Sri
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queensland Univ., St. Lucia, Qld., Australia
Abstract :
Automation of the hardware/software codesign methodology brings with it the need to develop sophisticated high-level profiling tools. This paper presents a profiling tool which uses execution profiling on standard C code to obtain accurate and consistent times at the level of individual compound code sections. This tool is used in the ASP Hardware/Software Codesign project. The results from this tool show that profiling must be performed on dedicated hardware which is as close as possible to the final implementation, as opposed to a workstation
Keywords :
circuit CAD; computer architecture; software tools; systems analysis; virtual machines; ASP; Automated Synthesis and Partitioning system; C code; Hardware/Software Codesign project; codesign environment; dedicated hardware; execution profiling; hardware/software codesign methodology; high-level profiling tools; profiling; workstation; Algorithm design and analysis; Application specific processors; Code standards; Costs; Design methodology; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Partitioning algorithms; Software algorithms; Software performance;
Conference_Titel :
System Synthesis, 1995., Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Cannes
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7076-2
DOI :
10.1109/ISSS.1995.520624
