Hardware/software codesign investigates the concurrent design of hardware and software
components of complex electronic systems. It tries to exploit the synergy of hardware and …

For the near future, the recent predictions and roadmaps of silicon semiconductor
technology all agree that the number of transistors on a chip will keep growing exponentially …

Co-Synthesis of Hardware and Software for Digital Embedded Systems, with a Foreword
written by Giovanni De Micheli, presents techniques that are useful in building complex …

Current practice dictates the separation of the hardware and software development paths
early in the design cycle. These paths remain independent with very little interaction …

system is a complex object containing a significant percentage of elec A tronics that interacts
with the Real World (physical environments, humans, etc.) through sensing and actuating …

The purpose of software partitioning is to assign code segments of a given computer
program to a range of execution locations such as general-purpose processors or specialist …

Hardware–software partitioning (HW/SW) divides an application into software and hardware.
It is one of the crucial steps in embedded system design. For a given task, hardware with …

This book addresses issues concerning the engineering of system prod ucts that make use
of computing technology. These systems may be prod ucts in their own right, for example a …

Many core accelerators are being deployed in many systems to improve the processing
capabilities. In such systems, application mapping need to be enhanced to maximize the …

The new generation of multicore processors and reconfigurable hardware platforms
provides a dramatic increase of the available parallelism and processing capabilities …