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Computers as Components, 2nd Edition
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Computers as Components, 2nd Edition

by Marilyn Wolf
July 2008
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
16h 52m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
Content preview from Computers as Components, 2nd Edition
20 CHAPTER 1 Embedded Computing
is one good way to ensure that we meet all specifications: We can concentrate on the
functional elements in the system block diagram, and then consider the nonfunc-
tional constraints when creating the hardware and software architectures.
How do we know that our hardware and software architectures in fact meet
constraints on speed, cost, and so on? We must somehow be able to estimate the
properties of the components of the block diagrams,such as the search and render-
ing functions in the moving map system. Accurate estimation derives in part from
exper ience, both general design experience and particular experience
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