… However, embedded processor design typically begins at a much higher abstraction level,
even far beyond an "instructionset", and involves several architecture exploration cycles
before the optimum hardware/software match has been found. In tum, this … Here, it will be
shown that large parts of the LISA model resulting from the architecture exploration phase
can be reused to generate those parts of the implementation model that are tedious and
error-prone to write, but have minor influence on the overall performance of the target …

Already today more than 90% of all programmable processors are employed in embedded
systems. This number is actually not surprising, contemplating that in a typical home you
might find one or two PCs equipped with high of embedded systems, performance standard
processors, but probably dozens including electronic entertainment, household, and
telecom devices, each of them equipped with one or more embedded processors. Moreover,
the elec tronic components of upper-class cars incorporate easily over one hundred pro …