When looking at future embedded systems and their design, especially (but not exclusively) in the multi‐ media domain, we observe several problems:
- high performance (10 GOPS and far beyond) has to be combined with low power (many systems are mobile);
- time‐to‐market (to get your design done) constantly reduces;
- most embedded processing systems have to be extremely low cost;
- the applications show more dynamic behavior (resulting in greatly varying quality and performance requirements);
- more and more the designer requires flexible and programmable solutions;
- huge latency gap between processors and memories;
and
- design productivity does not cope with the increasing design complexity.
- Teacher: Ali Banagozar
- Teacher: Henk Corporaal
- Teacher: Patrick Wijnings