A methodology for an application profiling at system level

This paper comes within the framework in the application-architecture matching. The proposed methodology covers the upper part of the codesign flow which is located before the partitioning step. The issue is to provide the designer and to the partitioning step with useful information in order to design an ad hoc architecture. Also, the estimations are computed without knowledge of the implementation. The optimisation potential existing between the function are taking into account to obtain a global and dynamic cost of the application.