Automatic generation of application models for embedded systems

消费者对高端智能手机的兴趣正促使制造商在其产品中加入越来越多PC台式电脑的特性和功能。随着设计的片上系统的复杂性的增加，如果没有适当的工具和方法，预硅性能研究是很难做到的。在硬件或软件可用之前，需要对嵌入式系统的应用程序模型进行早期性能分析。当前基于流量生成器的实践不足以准确地模拟各种实际用例。更好的选择是用在cpu上运行的应用程序的更精确的表示来替换一些流量生成器。然而，这种表示的开发是一项手工且耗时的工作。这个项目的主要目标是了解哪些代码结构必须在应用程序模型中实现，哪些细节可以抽象出来，以便自动生成应用程序模型。

Consumer interest in high-end smart phones is pushing manufacturers to include more and more features and capabilities seen in PC desktops. As the complexity of the designed System-on-Chip increases, pre-silicon performance investigations are difficult to do without appropriate tools and methodologies. Application models for embedded systems are needed for early performance analysis before availability of either hardware or software. Current practice based on traffic generators is not sufficiently accurate to model various realistic use cases. A better option is to replace some of the traffic generators by a more precise representation of the application running on the CPUs. However, development of such representations is a manual and time consuming job. The primary objective of this project is to understand which code structures must be implemented in the application model and which details may be abstracted away so that the application model can be automatically generated.