Profiler for Control System in System Level Design

This paper introduces a profiler architecture for control systems in system-level design. When designing a control system, we need to consider two things. The first thing is the asynchronous signal coming from sensors and actuators, which is called an interrupt request signal. The second thing is a process that should take a higher priority and be activated by an interrupt request signal, which is known as an interrupt handler. However, existing profilers cannot obtain the information of the interrupt request signal or the interrupt handler. Therefore, we develop a profiler for control systems can provide information about interrupts and interrupt handlers. Through an experiment, we demonstrate that the profiler provides information about interrupts with a 21.08% increase in area.