SESAME Papers

Journal publications, books, and book chapters

• C. Erbas, A. D. Pimentel, M. Thompson, and S. Polstra, ``A Framework for System-level Modeling and Simulation of Embedded Systems Architectures", in EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, 2007, available online: DOI 10.1155/2007/82123.
• A. D. Pimentel, M. Thompson, S. Polstra and C. Erbas, ``Calibration of Abstract Performance Models for System-level Design Space Exploration'', in Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology, 2007 (available online: DOI 10.1007/s11265-007-0085-2, currently in press)
• A. D. Pimentel, C. Erbas, and S. Polstra ``A Systematic Approach to Exploring Embedded System Architectures at Multiple Abstraction Levels'', in IEEE Transactions on Computers, pp. 99-112, Vol. 55 (No. 2), Feb. 2006.
• C. Erbas, S. Cerav-Erbas and A. D. Pimentel, ``Multiobjective Optimization and Evolutionary Algorithms for the Application Mapping Problem in Multiprocessor System-on-Chip Design'', in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, pp. 358-374, Vol. 10 (No. 3), June 2006.
• A. D. Pimentel, ``The Artemis Workbench for System-level Performance Evaluation of Embedded Systems'', in the Int. Journal of Embedded Systems, Jan. 2005.
• A. D. Pimentel, F. P. Terpstra, S. Polstra and J. E. Coffland, ``On the Modeling of Intra-task Parallelism in Task-level Parallel Embedded Systems'', in S. Bhattacharyya, E. Deprettere, and J. Teich (eds), Domain-Specific Processors: Systems, Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation, pp. 85-105, Marcel Dekker, Inc., Nov. 2003.
• A. D. Pimentel, S. Polstra, F. Terpstra, A.W. van Halderen, J. E. Coffland and L.O. Hertzberger, ``Towards Efficient Design Space Exploration of Heterogeneous Embedded Media Systems'', in E. Deprettere, J. Teich and S. Vassiliadis (eds), Embedded Processor Design Challenges: Systems, Architectures, MOdeling, and Simulation, LNCS, number 2268, pp. 57-73, 2002.
• A. D. Pimentel, P. Lieverse, P. van der Wolf, L.O. Hertzberger and E.F. Deprettere, ``Exploring Embedded-Systems Architectures with Artemis'', in IEEE Computer, pp. 57-63, Vol. 34 (No. 11), Nov. 2001.

Publications in conference and workshop proceedings

• P. van Stralen and A. D. Pimentel, ``Signature-based Microprocessor Power Modeling for Rapid System-level Design Space Exploration'', in the Proc. of th e IEEE/ACM/IFIP Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia (ESTIMedia'07), Salzburg, Austria, Oct., 2007.
• M. Thompson, T. Stefanov, H. Nikolov, A. D. Pimentel, C. Erbas, S. Polstra, and E. F. Deprettere, ``A Framework for Rapid System-level Exploration, Synthesis, and Programming of Multimedia MP-SoCs'', in the Proc. of the ACM/IEEE/IFIP Int. Conference on Hardware-Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS '07), Salzburg, Austria, Oct., 2007.
• M. Thompson and A. D. Pimentel, ``Towards Multi-application Workload Modeling in Sesame for System-level Design Space Exploration'', in the Proc. of the 7th Int. Workshop on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, MOdeling, and Simulation (SAMOS VII), pp. 222-232, LNCS, Samos, Greece, July, 2007.
• M. Thompson, A. D. Pimentel, S. Polstra and C. Erbas, ``A Mixed-level Co-simulation Method for System-level Design Space Exploration'', in the Proc. of the IEEE/ACM/IFIP Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia (ESTIMedia '06), pp. 27-32, Seoul, Korea, Oct., 2006.
• A. D. Pimentel, M. Thompson, S. Polstra and C. Erbas, ``On the Calibration of Abstract Performance Models for System-level Design Space Exploration'' , in the Proc. of the Int. Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, MOdeling, and Simulation (IC-SAMOS 2006), IEEE CAS, pp. 71-77, Samos, Greece, July, 2006.
• M. Thompson and A. D. Pimentel, ``A High-level Programming Paradigm for SystemC'', in the Proc. of the 4th Int. Workshop on Systems, Architectures, MOdeling, and Simulation (SAMOS 2004), LNCS, Samos, Greece, July, 2004.
• C. Erbas, S. C. Erbas and A. D. Pimentel, ``Static Priority Scheduling of Event-Triggered Real-Time Embedded Systems'', in Proc. of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for Codesign (MEMOCODE'04), San Diego, USA, June 23-25, 2004.
• C. Erbas, S.C. Erbas and A. D. Pimentel, ``A Multiobjective Optimization Model for Exploring Multiprocessor Mappings of Process Networks'', in the Proc. of the ACM/IEEE/IFIP Int. Conference on HW/SW Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES-ISSS '03), Newport Beach, USA, Oct. 2003.
• C. Erbas and A. D. Pimentel,``Utilizing Synthesis Methods in Accurate System-level Exploration of Heterogeneous Embedded Systems'', in the Proc. of the IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS '03), pp. 310-315, Seoul, Korea, Aug. 2003.
• S. Polstra, C. Erbas and A. D. Pimentel, ``IDF Models for Trace Transformations: A Case Study in Computational Refinement'', in the Proc. of the 3rd Int. Workshop on Systems, Architectures, MOdeling, and Simulation (SAMOS 2003), LNCS, Samos, Greece, July, 2003.
• A. D. Pimentel and C. Erbas,``An IDF-based Trace Transformation Method for Communication Refinement'', in the Proc. of the 40th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC 2003), pp. 402-407, Anaheim, USA, June 2003.
• J. E. Coffland and A. D. Pimentel, ``A Software Framework for Efficient System-level Performance Evaluation of Embedded Systems'', in the Proc. of the 18th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Embedded Systems track, pp. 666-671, Melbourne, Florida, USA, March 2003.
• A. D. Pimentel, F. P. Terpstra, S. Polstra and J. E. Coffland, ``Modeling Intra-task Parallelism in Task-level Parallel Embedded Systems'', in the Proceedings of the Progress workshop on Embedded Systems, Oct. 2002.
• A. D. Pimentel, F. P. Terpstra, S. Polstra and J. E. Coffland, ``Modeling of Intra-task Parallelism in Sesame'', in the Proc. of the 2nd Int. Workshop on Systems, Architectures, MOdeling, and Simulation (SAMOS 2002), Samos, Greece, July, 2002.
• F. P. Terpstra, S. Polstra, A. D. Pimentel and L. O. Hertzberger, ``Rapid Evaluation of Instantiations of Embedded Systems Architectures: a Case Study'', in the Proceedings of the Progress workshop on Embedded Systems, pp. 251-260, Oct. 2001.
• A. W. van Halderen, S. Polstra, A. D. Pimentel and L.O. Hertzberger, ``Sesame: Simulation of Embedded System Architectures for Multi-level Exploration'', in the Proc. of the conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI), pp. 99-106, May. 2001.
• A. D. Pimentel, P. van der Wolf, E. F. Deprettere, L.O. Hertzberger, J. T. J. van Eijndhoven and S. Vassiliadis, ``The Artemis Architecture Workbench'', in the Proc. of the Progress workshop on Embedded Systems, pp. 53-62, Oct. 2000.
• Todor Stefanov, Paul Lieverse, Ed Deprettere and Pieter van der Wolf, Y-Chart Based System Level Performance Analysis: An M-JPEG Case Study, Proceedings of the Progress Workshop, October 2000.
• A. W. van Halderen, A. Belloum and A. D. Pimentel, ``On Hybrid Abstraction-level Models in Architecture Simulation'', in the Proc. of the Progress workshop on Embedded Systems, pp. 29-36, Oct. 2000.