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

fYear

1995

fDate

13-15 Sep 1995

Firstpage

128

Lastpage

133

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Synthesis, 1995., Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Cannes

ISSN

1080-1820

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7076-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSS.1995.520624

Filename

520624