Embedded System Environment : Overview

This report describes ESE(Embedded System Environment), a tool set for modeling, synthesis and validation of MPSoC design. It is an answer to the modern design challenge, widening productivity gap. In the ESE design flow, the final implementation is obtained from the universal specification of a given system by automatic or semi-automatic refinement. Application, platform and their mapping serve as the specification for the system. The level of abstraction is raised to transaction level. Verification of functionalities as well as validation of user requirements such as cost, power consumption and performance should be done by any design process. Transaction-Level Model(TLM) makes the tasks much easier so that the design cycles are shortened and wide design space exploration is available. TLM estimation is more than 90% accurate as Pin-Cycle Accurate Model(PCAM) based estimation while the simulation speed is a couple of thousand times faster. Compared to prototype board, execution on which is faster than TLM simulation in addition to that it has high accuracy, TLM is available at much earlier design stages. Depending on TLM that is even automatically generated, designers benefits from high design productivity.