System performance analysis and the system quantitative studies
To perform the SoC system performance analysis and quantitively study it, we need to refer to Chapter 8, FPGA SoC Software Design Flow, specifically, all the details from the section titled Defining the distributed software microarchitecture for the ETS SoC processors. We have provided a full ETS SoC microarchitecture, as shown in the following diagram:
Figure 10.9 – ETS SoC microarchitecture simplified diagram
In this analysis, we aim to understand whether the proposed IPC between the Cortex-A9 CPU and the MicroBlaze PP processor mechanism is optimal and using all the possible hardware capabilities of the SoC FPGAs. We would like to figure out whether using the ACP would be a better alternative to using the microarchitecture proposal implementation via the PS AXI GP interface. The current IPC mechanism from the Cortex-A9 toward the MicroBlaze PP uses the circular buffer queue hosted in...