Multimedia Multiprocessor Systems

This book covers a complete design trajectory for the design of multi-media systems running multiple applications; it includes both theory and practice. It is meant for all people interested in designing multi-media and other real-time multi-processor systems.It helps them to think and reason about timing requirements and offers them various modeling, analysis, design and management techniques needed to realize these complex systems first time right. The book is also meant for system level architects who want to quickly make high level estimates and system trade-offs based on solid modeling. The book is also suitable for use within a post graduate course. To this purpose the authors had included extensive introductory chapters on trends and challenges in multi-media systems, and on the theory behind application modeling and scheduling. In particular data flow techniques are treated in some depth. In such a course the available tools will help students to get familiar with future design flows,and bring the theory into practice.