Automatic system-level synthesis for heterogeneous platforms

The field of “real-time data acquisition and computing applications in the physical sciences” presents by definition a cyber-physical system design problem that pushes the performance boundaries of the latest I/O, computation, communication, and storage technologies. This trend has forced designers to consider heterogeneous platforms that offer a good balance of performance, power efficiency, and cost. Unfortunately, this comes at a significant increase in programming complexity to match the efficiency gains in hardware, which translates to lower design productivity. The problem is more apparent today given that most system designers are domain experts in the physical sciences and not necessarily `native' programming experts.