Download or read book Hardware Software Co-Design for Parallel Embedded Systems written by Ruirui Gu and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embedded systems are becoming more and more important.Previously, because embedded systems were highly limited in computational capability, memory size, and power consumption, system performance issues, such as execution time, were traded off with system resources, and resources were carefully scheduled and utilized. With more available computational capability in embedded system devices, such as multi-core devices, and more complicated requirements demanding more intensive computation, the most critical design concerns are changing in some important application domains. Execution time is especially critical to real time systems, in the sense that it is related not only to system performance, but also to system correctness and reliability. This thesis explores modeling and optimization techniques for hardware-software co-design of parallel embedded systems. We propose a dataflow based framework, which covers modeling, analysis and optimization and bridges between user-friendly design and efficient implementation. The framework is applied to different kinds of applications.