Research Article

A Prototype-Based Gate-Level Cycle-Accurate Methodology for SoC Performance Exploration and Estimation

Table 4

Experimental results of the MPEG-4 decoder.

PlatformIntegratorEXPA10Main model parameters
ProgramCAssemblyCAssemblyPlatformIntegratorEXPA10

Stefan0.2070.2200.4040.437CPU25 Mhz50 Mhz
Foreman0.2610.2490.5100.501Local Bus25 Mhz50 Mhz
M-D0.2690.2780.5100.565AHB25 Mhz50 Mhz

Average0.2460.2490.4750.501SDRAM128 MB128 MB

Unit: frame per second (fps).