High-Performance Embedded Computing

430 Chapter 7 Hardware and Software Co-design

Hardware/software co-design’s goal is to search a very large design space to

find reasonable system architectures for application-specific systems. To plausi-

bly formulate this design space, let alone efficiently search it, we typically make

some assumptions about the design. We may work from a template, use a library

of predesigned components, or use particular objective functions to drive a

search. Even a few assumptions make the design problem much more tractable.

Hardware/software co-design is not a push-button solution to embedded sys-

tem design. We still need the techniques described in earlier chapters ...