Cautious optimism for the future [codesign research]

The expectations, experimental results, and open issues relating to codesign research are discussed. Codesign refers to the integrated design of systems implemented using both hardware and software components. It is argued that the renewed interest in codesign is largely explained by the increasing diversity and complexity of applications employing embedded systems; the need to decrease the cost of designing and testing such systems; and advances in some key enabling technologies