Publications

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Journal publications

S. Jaddoe, M. Thompson, and A. D. Pimentel, "Signature-based Calibration of Analytical Performance Models for System-level Design Space Exploration", in Transactions on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers (Trans. on HiPEAC), Vol. 4 (No. 4), 2009.

P. van Stralen and A. D. Pimentel, "A High-level Microprocessor Power Modeling Technique based on Event Signatures", in the Journal of Signal Processing Systems, 2010, Springer, preprint available online DOI 10.1007/s11265-008-0301-8.

A. Gerstlauer, C. Haubelt, A.D. Pimentel, T. Stefanov, D.D. Gajski, and J. Teich, "Electronic System-Level Synthesis Methodologies", in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, pp. 1517-1530, Vol. 28 (No. 10), Oct. 2009.

T. E. Pronk, S. Polstra, A. D. Pimentel, and T. M. Breit, "Towards Design Space Exploration for Biological Systems", in the Journal of Computers (invited paper), pp. 1-9, Vol. 3 (No. 2), Feb. 2008.

A. D. Pimentel, M. Thompson, S. Polstra and C. Erbas, "Calibration of Abstract Performance Models for System-level Design Space Exploration", in Journal of Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology, pp. 99-114, Vol. 50 (No. 2), Feb. 2008, Springer.

A. D. Pimentel, "The Artemis Workbench for System-level Performance Evaluation of Embedded Systems", in Int. Journal of Embedded Systems, pp. 181-196, Vol. 3 (No. 3), 2008.

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.

T. E. Pronk, A. D. Pimentel, M. Roos, T. M. Breit, "Taking the Example of Computer Systems Engineering for the Analysis of Biological Cell Systems", in BioSystems, pp. 623-635, Vol. 90 (No. 3), Nov./Dec. 2007.

C. Erbas, S. Cerav-Erbas and A. D. Pimentel, "Static Priority Scheduling of Event-Triggered Real-Time Embedded Systems", in Int. Journal on Formal Methods for System Design, pp. 29-47, Vol. 30 (No. 1), Feb. 2007, Springer. (selected from the 3 best papers of ACM/IEEE MEMOCODE '04).

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, 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.

P. M. A. Sloot, A. D. Pimentel and L. O. Hertzberger, "Design Issues for High Performance Simulation", Simulation Practice & Theory, Vol. 6 (No. 3), pp. 221--242, Elsevier, 1998.

A. D. Pimentel and L. O. Hertzberger, "Simulating MIMD Multicomputers: the Mermaid approach", in Nitin H. Vaidya (editor), IEEE Computer Society TCCA Newsletter, pages 11-15, December 1995

Book chapters

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.

Edited volumes (books and journal issues)

N. Chang, A. D. Pimentel, M. Berekovic, editors, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) Special Issue on Embedded Systems for Real-time Multimedia, to appear in 2011.

P. Eles, A. D. Pimentel, S. Chakraborty. and M. Berekovic, editors, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) Special Issue on Embedded Systems for Real-time Multimedia, to appear in 2010.

M. Berekovic and A. D. Pimentel, editors, Special Issue of the Journal of Signal Processing Systems, to appear in 2010.

A. D. Pimentel and N. Chang, editors, Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia (ESTIMedia '09), Grenoble, France, October, 2009.

F. Wolf, A.D. Pimentel, L. DeRose, S. Ha, Th. Kielmann, and A. Morajko, editors, Topic "Support tools and environments", Proceedings of Euro-Par 2009, pp. 7-8, LNCS, Delft, the Netherlands, Aug., 2009.

P. Eles and A. D. Pimentel, editors, Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia (ESTIMedia '08), Atlanta, USA, October, 2008.

M. Berekovic, T. D. Hämäläinen, and A. D. Pimentel, editors, Special Issue of the Journal of Systems Architecture, Vol. 54 (No. 11), pp. 1017-1018, 2008.

J. Takala, T. D. Hämäläinen, A. D. Pimentel, and S. Vassiliadis, editors, Special Issue of the Journal of Systems Architecture, Vol. 53 (No. 8), pp. 465-550, Aug. 2007.

A. D. Pimentel and S. Vassiliadis, editors, Special Issue of the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing-Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology, Vol. 43 (No. 2-3), May 2006.

T. D. Hämäläinen, A. D. Pimentel, J. Takala, and S. Vassiliadis, editors, Proceedings of the 5th Int. Workshop on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, MOdeling, and Simulation (SAMOS 2005) , LNCS 3553, Samos, Greece, July, 2005.

A. D. Pimentel and S. Vassiliadis, editors, Proceedings of the 4th Int. Workshop on Systems, Architectures, MOdeling, and Simulation (SAMOS 2004), LNCS 3133, Samos, Greece, July, 2004.

R. L. Lagendijk, J.W.J. Heijnsdijk, A. D. Pimentel and M. H. F. Wilkinson, editors, Proceedings of the 7th Annual conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI), June, 2001.

Conference and workshop proceedings

K. Sigdel, M. Thompson, A. D. Pimentel, K.L.M. Bertels, and C. Galuzzi, "Evaluation of Runtime Task Mapping Heuristics with rSesame - A Case Study", to appear in the Proceedings of the Int. Conference on Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE'10), Dresden, Germany, March 2010.

K. Sigdel, M. Thompson, A. D. Pimentel, K.L.M. Bertels, and C. Galuzzi, "rSesame - A Generic System-level Runtime Simulation Framework for Reconfigurable Architectures", in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT '09), Sydney, Australia, December 2009.

T. Taghavi, A.D. Pimentel, M. Thompson, "System-level MP-SoC Design Space Exploration using Tree Visualization", in the Proc. of the IEEE/ACM/IFIP Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia (ESTIMedia '09), Grenoble, France, Oct. 2009.

T. Taghavi, M. Thompson, and A. D. Pimentel, "Visualization of Computer Architecture Simulation Data for System-level Design Space Exploration", in the Proc. of Int. Symposium on Systems, Architectures, MOdeling and Simulation (SAMOS '09), Samos, Greece, July 2009.

K. Sigdel, M. Thompson, A. D. Pimentel, K.L.M. Bertels, and C. Galuzzi, "System Level Runtime Mapping Exploration of Reconfigurable Architectures", in the Proceedings of the 16th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW '09), Rome, Italy, May 2009.

K. Sigdel, M. Thompson, A. D. Pimentel, and K.L.M. Bertels, "Towards System Level Runtime Design Space Exploration of Reconfigurable Architecture", in the Proceedings of the 19th Annual Workshop on Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (ProRISC08), Veldhoven, The Netherlands, November 2008.

A. D. Pimentel, T. Stefanov, H. Nikolov, M. Thompson, S. Polstra and E. F. Deprettere, "Tool Integration and Interoperability Challenges of a System-level Design Flow: a Case Study", invited paper, in the Proc. of Int. Symposium on Systems, Architectures, MOdeling and Simulation (SAMOS '08), pp. 167-176, LNCS, Samos, Greece, July, 2008.

S. Jaddoe and A. D. Pimentel, "Signature-based Calibration of Analytical System-level Performance Models", in the Proc. of Int. Symposium on Systems, Architectures, MOdeling and Simulation (SAMOS '08), pp. 268-278, LNCS, Samos, Greece, July, 2008.

K. Sigdel, M. Thompson, A. D. Pimentel, T. Stefanov, and K. Bertels, "System Level Design Space Exploration of Dynamic Reconfigurable Architectures", in the Proc. of Int. Symposium on Systems, Architectures, MOdeling and Simulation (SAMOS '08), pp. 279-288, LNCS, Samos, Greece, July, 2008.

H. Nikolov, M. Thompson, T. Stefanov, A. D. Pimentel, S. Polstra, R. Bose, C. Zissulescu, and E. F. Deprettere, "Daedalus: Toward Composable Multimedia MP-SoC Design", invited paper, in the Proc. of the ACM/IEEE Int. Design Automation Conference (DAC '08), pp. 574-579, Anaheim, USA, June, 2008.

P. van Stralen and A. D. Pimentel, "Signature-based Microprocessor Power Modeling for Rapid System-level Design Space Exploration", in the Proc. of the IEEE/ACM/IFIP Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia (ESTIMedia '07), pp. 33-40, 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), pp. 9-14, 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 '07), pp. 222-232, LNCS, Samos, Greece, July, 2007.

T. E. Pronk, S. Polstra, A. D. Pimentel, and T. Breit, "Evaluating the Design of Biological Cells using a Computer Workbench", in the Proc. of the 40th Annual Simulation Symposium, pp. 88-98, IEEE Computer Society Press, Norfolk, USA, March, 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.

T. E. Pronk, S. Polstra, A. D. Pimentel, M. Roos, T. M. Breit, "Evaluating the Design of Biological Cells Using a Computer Workbench", poster at the 5th European Conference on Computational Biology, Eilat, Israel, Sept. 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 '06), IEEE CAS, pp. 71-77, Samos, Greece, July, 2006.

T. Bernard, K. Bousias, B. de Geus, M. Lankamp, L. Zhang, A. D. Pimentel, P.M.W. Knijnenburg, and C.R. Jesshope, "A Microthreaded Architecture and its Compiler" in the Proc. of the Int. Workshop on Compilers for Parallel Computers (CPC '06), Spain, Jan., 2006.

A. D. Pimentel, "A Case for Visualization-integrated System-level Design Space Exploration", in the Proc. of the 5th Int. Workshop on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, MOdeling, and Simulation (SAMOS '05), pp. 455-464, LNCS, Samos, Greece, July, 2005.

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 '04), pp. 530-539, LNCS, Samos, Greece, July, 2004.

C. Erbas, S. Cerav-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), Best paper award candidate, San Diego, USA, June 23-25, 2004.

C. Erbas, S. Cerav-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 '03), pp. 178-187, 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 '03), 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 (SAC '03), 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 '02), 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. 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 the Proc. of the 1st Int. Workshop on Systems, Architectures, MOdeling, and Simulation (SAMOS '01), Samos, Greece, July, 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.

M. Modi, V. Gupta and A. D. Pimentel, "Performance Evaluation of the LH*lh Scalable, Distributed Data Structure for a Cluster of Workstations", in the Proc. of the 16th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '01), pp. 544-548, Las Vegas, USA, March, 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.

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.

A. D. Pimentel, P. Struik and P. van der Wolf and L. O. Hertzberger, "Hardware versus Hybrid Data Prefetching in Multimedia Processors: A Case Study", in the Proc. of the IEEE Int. Performance, Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2000), pp. 525-531, Phoenix, USA, Feb. 2000.

J. T. J. van Eijndhoven, F. W. Sijstermans, K. A. Vissers, E. J. D. Pol, M. J. A. Tromp, P. Struik, R. H. J. Bloks, P. van der Wolf, A. D. Pimentel and H. P. E. Vranken, "TriMedia CPU64 architecture", in the Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conference on Computer Design (ICCD '99), pp. 586-592, Austin, USA, Oct. 1999.

A. D. Pimentel and L. O. Hertzberger, "Evaluation of LH*lh for a Multicomputer Architecture", in the Proc. of the EuroPar Conference, Distinguished paper award, LNCS, pp. 217-229, Toulouse, France, Sept. 1999.

A. D. Pimentel and L. O. Hertzberger, "Distributed Simulation of Multicomputer Architectures with Mermaid", in Proc. of the SCS Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS '98), pp. 73--79, Reno, USA, July, 1998.

P. Struik, P. van der Wolf and A. D. Pimentel, "A Combined Hardware/Software Solution for Stream Prefetching in Multimedia Applications", in Proc. of the SPIE 10th Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging (Multimedia Hardware Architectures track), pp. 120--130, San Jose, USA, January, 1998.

A. D. Pimentel and L. O. Hertzberger, "Abstract Workload Modelling in Computer Architecture Simulation", in Proc. of the Workshop on Performance Analysis and its Impact on Design (in conjunction with the 24th ACM/IEEE Int. Symposium on Computer Architecture), pp. 6--14, Denver, USA, June, 1997, also available as tech. rep. CS-97-02.

H. C. Kok, A. D. Pimentel and L. O. Hertzberger, "Runtime Visualization of Computer Architecture Simulations", in Proc. of the Workshop on Performance Analysis and its Impact on Design (in conjunction with the 24th ACM/IEEE Int. Symposium on Computer Architecture), pp. 15--24, Denver, USA, June, 1997.

A. D. Pimentel and L. O. Hertzberger, "An Architecture Workbench for Multicomputers", in Proc. of the 11th International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS '97), pp. 94--99, IEEE Computer Society Press, Geneva, Switzerland, April 1997.

A. D. Pimentel and L. O. Hertzberger, "Evaluation of a Mesh of Clos Wormhole Network", in Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC '96), pp. 158--164, IEEE Computer Society Press, Trivandrum, India, Dec. 1996.

A. D. Pimentel, J. van Brummen, T. Papathanassiadis, P. M. A. Sloot, and L. O. Hertzberger, "Mermaid: Modelling and Evaluation Research in Mimd ArchItecture Design," (outdated), in Proc. of the High Performance Computing and Networking conference, LNCS, pp. 335--340, Milan, Italy, May 1995.

A.D. Pimentel, L.O. Hertzberger, P.M.A. Sloot, Modelling and Evaluation Research in Mimd ArchItecture Design (Mermaid), in J. Knop, P. Schreiber (eds.), PowerXplorer User Report, 2nd edition, June 1995

PhD thesis

A. D. Pimentel, "A Computer Architecture Workbench", PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, Department of Computer Science, December. 1998.

Technical reports

M. Modi and V. Gupta and A. D. Pimentel, "LH*lh: Implementation on a Cluster of Workstations", technical report, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, July 2000.

A. D. Pimentel, A. W. van Halderen, L. O. Hertzberger and P. van der Wolf, "Sesame: Simulation of Embedded System Architectures for Multi-level Exploration", internal Artemis report, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, Dec. 1999.

A. D. Pimentel, P. Struik and P. van der Wolf and L. O. Hertzberger, "Hardware versus Hybrid Data Prefetching in Multimedia Processors: A Case Study", Dept. of Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, Feb. 1999.

A. D. Pimentel, P. Struik and P. van der Wolf, "Scalar versus Stream Data Prefetching for the TriMedia", tech. rep. PROMMPT-191, Philips Research Laboratories, Apr. 1998.

A. D. Pimentel, P. Struik and P. van der Wolf, "Evaluation of hardware-based and hybrid prefetching techniques for the TM1", tech. rep. PROMMPT-175, Philips Research Laboratories, Nov. 1997.

A. D. Pimentel and L. O. Hertzberger, "Distributed Simulation of Multicomputer Architectures with Mermaid", tech. rep. CS-97-03, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, Sep. 1997.

A. D. Pimentel and L. O. Hertzberger, "RAPID: RAPid Interpretation of Data", tech. rep. CS-97-01, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, Jan. 1997.

A. D. Pimentel and L. O. Hertzberger, "The Mermaid Architecture-workbench for Multicomputers", tech. rep. CS-96-04, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, Apr. 1996.

A. D. Pimentel and L. O. Hertzberger, "Simulation of a Mesh of Clos Wormhole Network", revised version of CS-95-05, tech. rep., Dept. of Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, Apr. 1996.

A. D. Pimentel and L. O. Hertzberger, "Simulation of a Mesh of Clos Wormhole Network", tech. rep. CS-95-05, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, Sept. 1995.

J. van Brummen, A. D. Pimentel, T. Papathanassiadis, P. M. A. Sloot, and L. O. Hertzberger, "Mermaid: Modelling and Evaluation Research in MIMD ArchItecture Design", tech. rep. CS-94-26, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, Dec. 1994.