Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

10-2001

Abstract

We introduce a formal basis for viewing computer systems as mixed steady state and non-steady state (transient) behaviors to motivate novel design strategies resulting from simultaneous consideration of function, scheduling and architecture. We relate three design styles: Hierarchical decomposition, static mapping and directed platform that have traditionally been separate. By considering them together, we reason that once a steady state system is mapped to an architecture, the unused processing and communication power may be viewed as a platform for a transient system, ultimately resulting in more effective design approaches that ease the static mapping problem while still allowing for effective utilization of resources. Our simulation environment, frequency interleaving, mixes a formal and experimental approach as illustrated in an example.

Keywords

Computer system modeling and simulation, Hardware/Software codesign, System on chip design

Discipline

Software Engineering | Theory and Algorithms

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Systems Synthesis, Montreal, Canada, 2001 Oct 1-3

First Page

262

Last Page

267

Identifier

10.1145/500001.500062

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

New York

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/500001.500062

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