The following is a sample reading list to give an impression of what will be covered in this course.
S. Chakraborty et al.:
“Performance evaluation of network processor architectures: combining simulation
with analytical estimation”, Computer Networks, 41(5):641—665, April 2003
S.
Chakraborty, S. Künzli and L. Thiele: “A general framework for analysing system
properties in platform-based embedded system designs”, In Proc. 6th
Design, Automation and Test in
Europe (DATE), Germany, March 2003
K. Richter et al.: “Bottom-up
performance analysis of HW/SW platforms”, In Proc. Distributed and Parallel
Embedded Systems Workshop (DIPES), Canada, 2002
K. Richter, M. Jersak and R. Ernst: “A
formal approach to MpSoC performance verification”, IEEE Computer,
36(4):60—67, 2003
Y-T. S. Li, S. Malik and A. Wolfe:
“Performance estimation of embedded software with instruction cache modeling”,
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems,
4(3):257—279, 1999
H. Theiling, C. Ferdinand and R.
Wilhelm: “Fast and precise WCET prediction by separated cache and path
analysis”, Real-Time Systems, 18(2/3):157—179, 2000
X. Li, T. Mitra and A. Roychoudhury:
“Accurate timing analysis by modeling caches, speculation and their
interaction”, In Proc. 40th ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC),
USA, 2003
S. Chakraborty et al.:
“Scheduling event-driven code blocks in real-time embedded systems”, In Proc.
39th ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), USA, 2002
K. Lahiri, A. Raghunathan and S. Dey:
“System-level performance analysis for designing on-chip communication
architectures”, IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits
and Systems, 20(6):768—783, 2001
T-Y. Yen and W. Wolf: “Performance
evaluation of real-time distributed embedded systems”, IEEE Trans. on
Parallel and Distributed Systems, 9(11):1125—1136, 1998
P. Pop, P. Eles and Z. Peng:
“Performance estimation for embedded systems with data and control
dependencies”, In Proc. 8th Intl. Symp. on Hardware/Software
Codesign (CODES), 2000
M.A. Franklin and T. Wolf: “A network
processor performance and design model with benchmark parameterization”, In
Network Processor Design: Issues and Practices, vol. 1, chap. 6, pages
117—140, 2003
L. Thiele et al.: “Design space
exploration of network processor architectures”, In Network Processor Design:
Issues and Practices, vol. 1, chap. 4, pages 55—90, 2003
W. Fornaciari et al.: “A
sensitivity-based design space exploration methodology for embedded systems”,
Design Automation for Embedded Systems, 7(1-2), 2002
A.D. Pimentel et al.: “Exploring embedded systems architectures with Artemis”, IEEE Computer, 34(11):57—63, 2001