This book serves as a reference for researchers and designers in Embedded Systems who need to
explore design alternatives. It provides a design space exploration methodology for the
analysis of system characteristics and the selection of the most appropriate architectural
solution to satisfy requirements in terms of performance power consumption number of required
resources etc. Coverage focuses on the design of complex multimedia applications where the
choice of the optimal design alternative in terms of application architecture pair is too
complex to be pursued through a full search comparison especially because of the
multi-objective nature of the designer's goal the simulation time required and the number of
parameters of the multi-core architecture to be optimized concurrently.
