Modeling and Simulating Memory Hierarchies in a Platform-based Design Methodology

This paper presents an environment based on Sys-temC for architecture specification of programmable sys-tems. Making use of the new architecture description lan-guage ArchC, able to capture the processor description as well as the memory subsystem configuration, this environ-ment offers support for system-level specification, intended for platform-based design. As a case study, it is pre-sented the memory architecture exploration for a simple image processing application, yet a more robust environ-ment evaluation is performed through the execution of some real-world benchmarks. 1