System Level Modeling and Performance Simulation for Dynamic Reconfigurable Computing Systems in SystemC.
Martin Streubühr, Carsten Riedel, Christian D. Haubelt, Jürgen Teich · 2007
Designing reconfigurable computing systems is a challenging task; especially forecasting the benefits from using reconfigurable architectures at design time is hard. As a solution, we present a simulation–based framework for performance evaluation of partitioned reconfigurable computing systems. With this framework, the designer is enabled to assess the impact of different scheduling and reconfiguration strategies at a high level of abstraction with marginal simulation overhead and minimal source code modifications. We will show the benefits of our approach by comparing our performance simulation to a pure functional simulation.