Design Space Exploration for Heterogeneous Multi Multi-Core Processor Dedicated Systems

This work faces the problem of the HW/SW co-design of dedicated systems based on heterogeneous multi multi-core processor architectures. In particular, it proposes an extension of a previous system-level design space exploration (DSE) approach able to suggest to the designer an HW/SW partitioning of the system specification and a mapping of the partitioned entities onto an automatically selected architecture. The extended modeling strategy and the description of the adopted heuristics and metrics represent the core of the paper.