A performance evaluator for parameterized ASIC architectures
Jie Gong, Daniel D. Gajski, Alex Nicolau · European Design Automation Conference · 1994
System-level partitioning assigns functional objects such as tasks or code segments to system-level components such as o -the-shelf processors or application-speci c architectures in order to meet design constraints. Characterization of these system-level components and performance evaluation of given applications on these components are crucial to system-level partitioning. In this paper, we propose a new parameterized architecture model of system-level components and present an algorithm for rapid performance estimation. The model, di erent from those proposed previously, re ects comprehensive architectural characteristics a ecting machine parallelism. By using an ultrane-grain scheduler which exploits the parallelism in the model, we can evaluate performance of applications assigned to various architectures.