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This chapter presents a performance model integrated in a complete system design methodology to describe and evaluate system architectures all along the development process. The model is mostly graphical and hierarchical and is based on two complementary and orthogonal viewpoints: the organizational and the behavioral viewpoints. The structural model is useful to represent the architecture of hardware/software systems at the functional and the executive levels. The behavioral model specifies the set of operations and activities and their complete or partial time ordering. It is graphically described according to the vertical axis representing the temporal evolution and the horizontal axis describing the data or information flow. The two dimensional uninterpreted model - structure and behavior - is enhanced with attributes to specify the characteristics of each component. One important attribute is the degree of concurrency of a component (processor, shared variable, etc.). Generic parameters are also used to easily scan the solution space.
We also describe the technique we have been using to evaluate system characteristics and, specifically, the performance at the specification and allocation levels. For that purpose, the model is translated into VHDL and simulated. Graphical tools to capture the performance model are under development. The proposed model with its associated method is interesting because it allows us to follow an incremental smooth path from the performance requirements down to the implementation and the conformance verification.
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Calvez, JP. (1996). A System-Level Performance Model and Method. In: Bergé, JM., Levia, O., Rouillard, J. (eds) Meta-Modeling. Current Issues in Electronic Modeling, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1347-2_2
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