Software design is a complex cognitive task. Given the lack of consistent and general methodologies, it often demands creative capacities that sometimes bring our insight closer to arts than to an engineering field. Much of the success obtained by software engineers in their designs, comes from their acquired know-how. One way to improve their work, is by providing CASE tools capable of assisti...

Multitude parameters involved in the design process of a reconfigurable accelerator which is exploited in embedded systems brings about a remarkable complexity and large design space. One effective technique is design space exploration which is capable to find a right balance between the different design parameters. Quantitative design approach is an alternative which uses the data collected fr...

The increasing complexity of embedded applications combined with the advances in chip integration make the design process a very challenging task. Due to this rising complexity, the design under performance, area and consumption constraints of a system on a chip (SOC) composed of mixed software-hardware units, becomes increasingly intricate. This paper presents a method and an associated tool (...

One of the major challenges of designing heterogeneous reconfigurable systems is to obtain the maximum system performance with efficient utilization of the reconfigurable logic resources. To accomplish this, it is essential to perform design space exploration (DSE) at the early design stages. System-level simulation is used to estimate the performance of the system and to make early decisions o...

The platform-based design methodology [1] is based on the usage of formal modeling techniques, clearly defined abstraction levels and the separation of concerns to enable an effective design process. The METROPOLIS framework embodies the platform-based design methodology and has been applied to a number of case studies across multiple domains. Based on these experiences, we have identified thre...

Design space exploration is commonly performed in embedded system, where the architecture is a complicated piece of engineering. With the current trend of many-core systems, design space exploration in general-purpose computers can no longer be avoided. Microgrid is a complicated architecture, and therefor we need to perform design space exploration. Generally, simulators are used for the desig...