Rapid transactional level simulation of multiprocessor systems⋆

Abstract. We present a framework for modelling and performance es-timation of multiprocessor embedded systems. It consists of components for modelling parallel software and multiprocessor hardware; and Systemc-based tool for simulation and performance estimation. The components model are a transactional level description of hardware and software, where timing properties are modelled as annotations on the concurrency model. The experiments carried out on several real-life industrial-size applications show that our framework achieves rapid simulation