eSimu: a Fast and Accurate Energy Consumption Simulator for Real Embedded System

This paper presents a performance and energy consumption simulator for deeply embedded hardware platforms such as sensor network nodes. These tools are based on cycle accurate simulation of complete hardware platforms executing the real application code. This allows designers to get fast performance and consumption estimations without deploying software on target hardware, while being independent of any compilation tools or software components such as network protocols or operating systems.

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