System-Level Modeling and Design Space Exploration for Multiprocessor Embedded System-on-Chip Architectures

Samenvatting

Table of Contents - 8[-]Acknowledgments - 6[-]1 Introduction[-] 1.1 Related work in system-level design[-] 1.2 Organization and contributions of this thesis[-]2 The Sesame environment[-] 2.1 Trace-driven co-simulation[-] 2.2 Application layer[-] 2.3 Architecture layer[-] 2.4 Mapping layer[-] 2.5 Implementation aspects[-] 2.5.1 Application simulator[-] 2.5.2 Architecture simulator[-] 2.6 Mapping decision support[-] 2.7 Obtaining numbers for system-level simulation[-] 2.8 Summary[-]3 Multiobjective application mapping[-] 3.1 Related work on pruning and exploration[-] 3.2 Problem and model definition[-] 3.2.1 Application modeling[-] 3.2.2 Architecture modeling[-] 3.2.3 The mapping problem[-] 3.2.4 Constraint linearizations[-] 3.3 Multiobjective optimization[-] 3.3.1 Preliminaries[-] 3.3.2 ... Lexicographic weighted Tchebycheff method[-] 3.3.3 Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs)[-] 3.3.4 Metrics for comparing nondominated sets[-] 3.4 Experiments[-] 3.4.1 MOEA performance comparisons[-] 3.4.2 Effect of crossover and mutation[-] 3.4.3 Simulation results[-] 3.5 Conclusion[-]4 Dataflow-based trace transformations[-] 4.1 Traces and trace transformations[-] 4.2 The new mapping strategy[-] 4.3 Dataflow actors in Sesame[-] 4.3.1 Firing rules for dataflow actors[-] 4.3.2 SDF actors for architecture events[-] 4.3.3 Token exchange mechanism in Sesame[-] 4.3.4 IDF actors for conditional code and loops[-] 4.4 Dataflow actors for event refinement[-] 4.5 Trace refinement experiment[-] 4.6 Conclusion[-]5 Motion-JPEG encoder case studies[-] 5.1 Sesame: Pruning, exploration, and refinement[-] 5.2 Artemis: Calibration and validation[-] 5.3 Conclusion[-]6 Real-time issues[-] 6.1 Problem definition[-] 6.2 Recurring real-time task model[-] 6.2.1 Demand bound and request bound functions[-] 6.2.2 Computing request bound function[-] 6.3 Schedulability under static priority scheduling[-] 6.4 Dynamic priority scheduling[-] 6.5 Simulated annealing framework[-] 6.6 Experimental results[-] 6.7 Conclusion[-]7 Conclusion[-]A Performance metrics[-]B Task systems[-]References[-]Nederlandse samenvatting[-]Scientific output[-]Biography