Modern electronic systems consist of a fairly heterogeneous set of
components. Today, a single system can be constituted by a hardware
platform, frequently composed of a mix of analog and digital
components, and by several software application layers. The
hardware can include several heterogeneous microprocessors (e.g.
GPP, DSP, GPU, etc.), dedicated ICs (ASICs and/or FPGAs), memories,
a set of local connections between the system components, and some
interfaces between the system and the environment (sensors,
actuators, etc.). Therefore, on the one hand, multi-processor
embedded systems are capable of meeting the demand of processing
power and flexibility of complex applications. On the other hand,
such systems are very complex to design and optimize, so that the
design methodology plays a major role in determining the success of
the products. For these reasons, to cope with the increasing system
complexity, the approaches typically used today are oriented
towards co-design methodologies working at the higher levels of
abstraction. Unfortunately, such methodologies are typically
customized for the specific application, suffer of a lack of
generality and still need a considerable effort when real-size
project are envisioned. Therefore, there is still the need for a
general methodology able to support the designer during the
high-level steps of a co-design flow, enabling an effective design
space exploration before tackling the low-level steps and thus
committing to the final technology. This should prevent costly
redesign loops.In such a context, the work described in this book,
composed of two parts, aims at providing models, methodologies and
tools to support each step of the co-design flow of embedded
systems implemented by exploiting heterogeneous multi-processor
architectures mapped on distributed systems, as well as fully
integrated onto a single chip. The first part focuses on issues
like the analysis of system specification languages, and the
analysis of existing system-level HW/SW co-simulation methodologies
to support heterogeneous multi-processor architectures. The second
part focuses mainly on Design Space Exploration, and it presents
both some theoretical advancements with respect to the first part,
and the development of a prototypal framework that provides
practical exploitation of the proposed concepts.
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