Bus performances are extremely important in a platform-based design. System Level analysis of bus performances gives important information for the analysis and choice between different architectures driven by functional, timing and power constraints of the System-on-Chip. This paper presents the effect of different arbitration algorithms and bus usage methodologies on the bus AMBA AHB performances in terms of effective throughput and power dissipation. SystemC and VHDL models have been developed and simulations have been performed.

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In this paper we present the main features of PKtool, an efficient simulation enviroment for SystemC, which allows the easy introduction of a power model in the executable specification of a complex design. The PKtool simulator has been applied to the SystemC modules of Bluetooth Baseband Layer and many simulations of the power dissipated by the Baseband during the life of the piconet have been performed.

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