Modeling and simulation of steady state and transient behaviors for emergent SoCs

• Main Authors: PAUL, JoAnn M., SUPPE, Arne, THOMAS, Donald E.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2001
• Subjects: Computer system modeling and simulation; Hardware/Software codesign; System on chip design; Software Engineering; Theory and Algorithms
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8284; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9287/viewcontent/Modeling_and_simulation.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We introduce a formal basis for viewing computer systems as mixed steady state and non-steady state (transient) behaviors to motivate novel design strategies resulting from simultaneous consideration of function, scheduling and architecture. We relate three design styles: Hierarchical decomposition, static mapping and directed platform that have traditionally been separate. By considering them together, we reason that once a steady state system is mapped to an architecture, the unused processing and communication power may be viewed as a platform for a transient system, ultimately resulting in more effective design approaches that ease the static mapping problem while still allowing for effective utilization of resources. Our simulation environment, frequency interleaving, mixes a formal and experimental approach as illustrated in an example.