Design Automation & Test in Europe
A Dynamic Computation Method for Fast and Accurate Performance Evaluation of Multi-Core Architectures
作者:
SL Nours，A Postula，NW Bergmann
关键词:
discrete event simulation；electronic engineering computing；multiprocessing systems；accurate performance evaluation；automatic generation；complex multicore architectures；dynamic computation method；efficient architecture models；model execution；resource usage processing
摘要:
Early estimation of performance has become necessary to facilitate design of complex multi-core architectures. Performance evaluation based on extensive simulations is time consuming and needs to be improved to allow exploration of different architectures in acceptable time. In this paper, we propose a method that improves the tradeoff between simulation speed and accuracy in performance models of architectures. This method computes during model execution some of the synchronization instants involved in architecture evolution. It allows grouping and abstracting architecture processes and this way significantly reduces the number of simulation events. Experiments show significant benefits from the computation method on the simulation time. Especially, a simulation speed-up by a factor of 4 is achieved in the considered case study, with no loss of accuracy about estimation of processing resource usage. The proposed method has potential to support automatic generation of efficient architecture models.
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