aEindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
bNokia Research Center, Germany
Abstract:
The recent spectacular progress in modern microelectronics created a big stimulus towards development of embedded systems. Unfortunately, it also introduced unusual complexity which results in many serious issues that cannot be resolved without new more adequate development methods and electronic design automation tools for the system-level design. This paper discusses the problem of an efficient model-based multi-objective optimal architecture synthesis for complex hard real-time embedded systems, when using as an example a system-level architecture exploration and synthesis method that we developed.