Hardware-software partitioning for real-time embedded systems

Design Automation for Embedded Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 339-358

  Hu, Xiaobo ^a   D'Ambrosio, Joseph G ^b  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Hardware software partitioning; Real time embedded systems; System architecture; System level design

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; OPTIMIZATION;

HARDWARE SOFTWARE PARTITIONING; REAL TIME EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031130187     PISSN: 09295585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008891704121     Document Type: Article

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