Abstract
In most industrial embedded systems development projects,
the software and the hardware development parts are
separated, and the constraint requirements/capabilities
are informally exchanged in the system development phase
of the process. To prevent failures due to the violation
of timing constraints, hardware components of the
platform are typically over dimensioned for the
capabilities needed. This increases both cost and power
consumption. Performance analysis is not done
sufficiently at early stages of the development process
to optimize the system. This chapter presents results of
the integration of tools and extra modeling to offer new
performance analysis capabilities in the early stages of
the development process. These results are based on trace
generation from code instrumentation. A number of
enhancements were made, spanning the system modeling
stage down to the execution stage (based on an ARM dual
core Cortex A9-based target board). Final results taken
from a software-based radio case study (including the
analysis and validation stages) are presented.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Handbook of Research on Embedded Systems Design |
| Editors | Alessandra Bagnato, Leandro Soares Indrusiak, Imran Rafiq Quadri, Matteo Rossi |
| Publisher | IGI Global |
| Pages | 283-300 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-466-66195-0 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-466-66194-3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| MoE publication type | D2 Article in professional manuals or guides or professional information systems or text book material |