A comparison of profiling tools for FPGA-based embedded systems

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1687-1690

  Tong, Jason G ^a   Khalid, Mohammed A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Embedded systems; FPGA; Profiling tools

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; CODES (STANDARDS); CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

CODE MODIFICATIONS; DEDICATED HARDWARE; ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING (ECE); HARDWARE DOMAIN; INSTRUMENTATION CODE; PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECKS; PERFORMANCE DATA; PROFILING TOOLS; SAMPLING METHODS; SAMPLING TECHNIQUES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE-BASED;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 48749120511     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCECE.2007.422     Document Type: Conference Paper

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