Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chips

12.4. Conclusions

Devices such as medical implants, smart cards, and so on lead to a demand for smaller and smaller computers, so the issues of limited resources will continue to be with us. Writing the software can be done faster and more reliably in high-level languages, particularly with access to a resource-aware compiler. One of the main approaches to building resource awareness into a compiler is to use ILP-based static analysis. We have presented the formulation of four recent ILP-based static analyses in a uniform format for a simple example language. We have also outlined several open problems in ILP-based resource-aware compilation.