This book introduces a generic and systematic design-time/run-time
methodology for handling the dynamic nature of modern embedded systems,
without adding large safety margins in the design. The techniques
introduced can be utilized on top of most existing static mapping
methodologies to deal effectively with dynamism and to increase
drastically their efficiency. This methodology is based on the concept
of system scenarios, which group system behaviors that are similar from
a multi-dimensional cost perspective, such as resource requirements,
delay, and energy consumption. Readers will be enabled to design systems
capable to adapt to current inputs, improving system quality and/or
reducing cost, possibly learning on-the-fly during execution.
- Provides an effective solution to deal with dynamic system design
- Includes a broad survey of the state-of-the-art approaches in this
domain
- Enables readers to design for substantial cost improvements (e.g.
energy reductions), by exploiting system scenarios
- Demonstrates how the methodology has been applied effectively on
various, real design problems in the embedded system context