Abstract

The use of embedded systems in various applications has increased extensively over last few years. Embedded systems allow hardware & software go hand in hand to perform some specific task. As the application demand goes on increasing with the time the complexity of the embedded system increases. At the same time, the size of integrated circuits should be limited considering the basic criteria for embedded system like, quality of system, quantity of system, speed of system, Performance of system and Power consumption of system. While designing system according to this criterion complexity of the system increases. To reduce complexity of system, it is designed using balanced hardware & software flow of design. This combined design of hardware & software is known as Co-Design. Using this approach we build dedicated software and hardware units on the single chip i. e. SoC design.

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