Abstract:

We propose an automatic instrumentation method for embedded software annotation to enable performance modeling in high level hardware/software co-simulation environments. The proposed "cross-annotation" technique consists of extending a retargetable compiler infrastructure to allow the automatic instrumentation of embedded software at the basic block level. Thus, target and annotated native binaries are guaranteed to have isomorphic control flow graphs (CFG). The proposed method takes into account the processor-specific optimizations at the compiler level and proves to be accurate with low simulation overhead.

Published:

"Automatic Instrumentation of Embedded Software for High Level Hardware/Software Co-Simulation"
Aimen Bouchhima, Patrice Gerin, Frédéric Pétrot
Proceedings of the 14th Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC'09), Yokohama, Japan, January 09

Bibtex:

@inproceedings{bouchhima_gerin09aspdac,
        author = {A. Bouchhima and P. Gerin and F. P\'etrot},
        title = { Automatic Instrumentation of Embedded Software for High Level Hardware/Software Co-Simulation }, 
        booktitle = {{ Proceeding of the 14th Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC'09) }}, 
        year = {2009},
        address = {Yokohama, Japan},
        month = {January},
}

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