EMBEDDED SYSTEMS DESIGN METHODOLOGY AT LEIDEN EMBEDDED RESEARCH CENTER

Abstract: The new emerging Embedded Systems are increasingly becoming more heterogeneous, i.e., systems composed of fully programmable components (microprocessors), re-configurable components (FPGAs), and dedicated hardware blocks. To design and program these systems, we present in this paper a number of concepts including the Y-chart approach and the Abstraction Pyramid. These concepts allow designers to perform system design and design space exploration in a systematic and automated way, narrowing down the design space in a number of steps. The concepts presented in this paper provide a methodology in which embedded system platforms can be obtained that satisfy a set of constraints while establishing enough flexibility to support a given set of applications