Method for estimating the efficiency of a software architecture formed by a set of hardware and software blocks, associated device and method

Abstract

Method for estimating the efficiency of a software architecture formed by a set of hardware and software blocks, associated device and method. The present invention relates to a method for estimating the efficiency of a software architecture (40) formed by at least one hardware block (44) and one software block (46) comprising a step of: - receiving a set (42) of blocks (44, 46) forming a software architecture (40), - for each of the blocks (44, 46), obtaining the elementary efficiency of the block (44, 46) by reading a database, the database associating with each block likely to be part of a software architecture an elementary efficiency, - for each of the blocks (44, 46), determining the relative contribution of each block (44, 46) to the efficiency of the software architecture (40),and - estimation of the efficiency of the software architecture (40) from the elementary efficiencies obtained and the relative contributions determined. Figure for the abstract: figure 3,