| 摘要 |
An object-oriented software analysis framework is provided for enabling software engineers and hardware engineers to gain insight into the behavior of software applications on emerging hardware platforms even before the hardware is fabricated. In this analysis framework, simulation data containing instruction, address and/or hardware register information is sent to interchangeable and parameterizable analyzer and profiler modules that decode the data and perform analysis of the data according to each module's respective analysis function. This detailed analysis is performed by constructing a tree of such modules through which the data travels and is classified and analyzed or filtered at each level of the tree. Each node of the tree is represented by an analyzer or a profiler module that performs sub-analysis based on the analysis performed by its parent such that at the end of a hardware simulation, each node, starting at the root, recursively calls on its children to dump their analysis, resulting in a categorized performance report. |
