Hajer Krichene Zrida, Abderrazek Jemai, Ahmed C Ammari, Mohamed Abid
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DOI: 10.4236/ijcns.2011.47052   PDF    HTML     4,698 Downloads   8,717 Views   Citations

Abstract

Given the substantially increasing complexity of embedded systems, the use of relatively detailed clock cycle-accurate simulators for the design-space exploration is impractical in the early design stages. Raising the abstraction level is nowadays widely seen as a solution to bridge the gap between the increasing system complexity and the low design productivity. For this, several system-level design tools and methodologies have been introduced to efficiently explore the design space of heterogeneous signal processing systems. In this paper, we demonstrate the effectiveness and the flexibility of the Sesame/Artemis system-level modeling and simulation methodology for efficient peformance evaluation and rapid architectural exploration of the increasing complexity heterogeneous embedded media systems. For this purpose, we have selected a system level design of a very high complexity media application; a H.264/AVC (Advanced Video Codec) video encoder. The encoding performances will be evaluated using system-level simulations targeting multiple heterogeneous multiprocessors platforms.

Keywords

System-Level Performance Evaluation, Embedded Systems Design Space Exploration Tools, the Sesame/Artemis Design Tool, a Parallel H.264/AVC Video Encoder

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