Multimedia Multiprocessor Systems

To achieve high performance in multimedia multiprocessor systems and keep costs and used resources low, the limited computational resources must be shared. The concurrent execution of applications on shared resources causes interference. Having an analysis technique can significantly reduce the development cost. Since applications are often added to the system at run-time (for example, a mobile-phone user may download a Java application at run-time), a complete analysis at design-time is also not feasible. Existing techniques are unable to handle this dynamism, and the only solution left to the designer is to over-dimension the hardware by a large factor leading to increased area, cost and power.