Energy Estimation in High Level Cycle-accurate Descriptions of Embedded Systems
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چکیده
Simulating performance and energy consumption of embedded systems using a high-level description is a challenging task in VLSI CAD. However such simulations are needed to select the best hardware architecture and software organization for a particular application. In this paper, we present an approach for cycle-accurate hardware/software co-simulations of energy consumption in embedded systems. The aim of our work is to provide a simulation framework enabling power estimations for high level descriptions (behavioral C models) of embedded systems that include new hardware components. A System-level cycleaccurate simulator and a processor Instruction Set Simulator are extended with energy models that take into account the state of the component.
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