This book provides a single-source reference to the state-of-the-art of high-level programming
models and compilation tool-chains for embedded system platforms. The authors address
challenges faced by programmers developing software to implement parallel applications in
embedded systems where very often they are forced to rewrite sequential programs into parallel
software taking into account all the low level features and peculiarities of the underlying
platforms. Readers will benefit from these authors¿ approach which takes into account both the
application requirements and the platform specificities of various embedded systems from
different industries. Parallel programming tool-chains are described that take as input
parameters both the application and the platform model then determine relevant transformations
and mapping decisions on the concrete platform minimizing user intervention and hiding the
difficulties related to the correct and efficient use of memory hierarchy and low level code
generation.
