Changeset 69 for anr

Timestamp:

Feb 2, 2010, 10:16:38 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

coach

Message:

IA: modif UBS

File:

• anr/section-2.tex (modified) (3 diffs)

anr/section-2.tex

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 The emerging complex and integrated heterogeneous embedded system platforms require
-adequate design methods  to efficiently model, explore, analyze and design the ever complex software
-and hardware architectures. Future Embedded Systems suppliers, in order to meet rapidly increasing
-performance requirements and a pressure to lower development cost and shorten time-to-market,
-will have to adopt new design methods and flows in order to keep pace with the increasing
+adequate design methods to efficiently model, explore, analyze and design the ever complex software
+and hardware architectures. In order to rapidly meet the increasing performance requirements and a pressure 
+to lower development cost and shorten time-to-market, future embedded systems suppliers
+will have to adopt new design methodologies and flows in order to keep pace with the increasing
 complexity of design problems. Such methods, addressing these challenges starting from high levels of
 abstraction, will have to perform large solution space explorations both for software and (possibly
 reconfigurable) hardware, reducing the design effort and offering a high predictability of results
 with respect to cost and performance objectives.
+\\
 Current design methodologies provide quite low-level abstraction capabilities. However in a few years
-from now tens of programmable processors will be embedded in an IC with more than 100M
+from now, tens of programmable processors will be embedded in an IC with more than 100M
 transistors, therefore adding to the complexity of the problem of designing such systems.
 Taking into account that the complexity of the software part is increasing at an even
@@ -15 +16 @@
 means do supply an adequate efficiency.
 Consequently, there is an urgent need to leverage system level
-exploration through the use of a high level specification of the application and an early design
+exploration through the use of a high-level specification of the application and an early design
 space exploration step. The first system oriented approaches are appearing, among which those
 based on C/C++ and SystemC are the most popular. Such approaches can take place before and/or after
@@ -58 +59 @@
 \begin{itemize} 
 \item
-\textbf{Design space exploration}: It consists in analysing the application runnig
+\textbf{Design space exploration}: It consists in analysing the application running
 on FPGA, defining the target technology (SoC, MPSoC, ASIP, ...) and
 hardware/software partitioning of tasks depending on technology choice.