Embedded systems are now key technologies for our future society, and
various researches have been done. These researches enable designers to
evaluate and implement an architecture such that designers really want,
easily. Then new problem is approaching to us, that is, how to find a
good solution fast. Architecture exploration from vast solution space is
an aggressive challenge for embedded system design. The architecture
exploration brings designers only to choose the best architecture they
really want from obtained Pareto curve. Productivity will be drastically
improved. This book describes leading edge architecture exploration
methodology for reconfigurable processors. The technology for
"exploration" would bring new values not only for embedded processor
designers, but for people in another field. However, proposed method is
just first cut for exploration method, and a lot of possibilities are
underlying. We hope this research brings new values to readers for our
future.