Books by Francky Catthoor

This book defines and explores the problem of placing the instances of dynamic data types on the components of the heterogeneous memory organization of an embedded system, with the final goal of reducing energy consumption and improving performance.

This book discusses analysis, design and optimization techniques for streaming multiprocessor systems, while satisfying a given area, performance, and energy budget. The design flow described in this book extends to thermal and energy optimization with multiple applications running sequentially and concurrently.

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.