Injecting hypervisor-based software partitions into Design Space Exploration activities considering mixed-criticality requirements

This work faces the role of HW/SW Design Space Exploration for heterogeneous parallel embedded systems subject to mixed-criticality requirements, extended to consider also hypervisor technologies. In particular, it presents an evolutionary approach integrated into a reference Electronic System-Level HW/SW Co-Design flow able to consider and evaluate design alternatives while exploiting also Hypervisor-based SW partitions. Finally, some experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.