An Experimental System Level Performance Analysis of Embedded Systems for GSM Application

Abstract

As per the requirement of embedded industry domain the processor system level performance has to be evaluated and tuned to match the required constraints of an application specification, so system level design methodology for embedded application-specific development system is becoming challenging. A novel System Level Design Methodology (SLDM) is developed to implement system level computational platform to evaluate the system level performance, investigate the system level issues and performance improvements of embedded systems. An experiment with different processor boards MPC 8548E, ARM920T, ARM1176JZF-S, ARM Cortex A53 and ARM Cortex-A8 was setup to analyze the system level performance of these boards. By evaluating and analyzing the system level performance of these platforms at the early point of development, an embedded application engineer can select which custom processor/board is useful for their embedded applications. In this paper micro benchmark algorithms are developed to evaluate latency, bandwidth of data movement among processor, memory, and network measurements are evaluated.