Driven by market needs, the complexity of modern embedded systems is ever increasing, which poses great challenges to the design process. System level design (SLD) has been proven to be an efficient solution to handle the design complexity. Another obvious trend in embedded systems is the increasing importance of software. Hence, this dissertation is focused on software performance estimation methods for system level design of embedded systems. The contributions of this work are fourfold: (1) software performance simulation methods for simulation-based system-level design space exploration, (2) improvement of flow analysis for WCET estimation of compiler-optimized embedded software, (3) an introduction of a system-level design framework, called SysCOLA, for automotive embedded systems design, and (4) a method for model-level performance simulation in SysCOLA to achieve earlier performance evaluation.
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Driven by market needs, the complexity of modern embedded systems is ever increasing, which poses great challenges to the design process. System level design (SLD) has been proven to be an efficient solution to handle the design complexity. Another obvious trend in embedded systems is the increasing importance of software. Hence, this dissertation is focused on software performance estimation methods for system level design of embedded systems. The contributions of this work are fourfold: (1) so...
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