Application hardware Modeling: A selective approach for system level performance assessment

The major challenge of multi-domain application design is that the different domains often closely interact with each other. So a separate design of each component and afterwards combining them to the application often does not result in the expected application function. Application modeling at transistor level is not feasible in terms of simulation duration and data handling. This work proposes a new approach for Application Hardware Modeling which addressing the risks of performance degradation caused by interferences between the components through modeling component performances and through virtually validating the application performance in the system environment. The simulations consider all the relevant components that could have an impact on the performance at application level to predict them. The fundamental of Application Hardware Modeling for right-on-first-pass applications is to select the relevant models for a given component, along with the creation and validation of models through equivalence checking, which are presented in this article.