Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chips

14.10. Conclusions

Although imagination and innovation have constantly pushed the envelope, leading to revolutionary ideas, new standards, novel algorithms, fancy displays, personalized services, and cooperative systems with blurring product boundaries, function and design complexity have also grown exponentially, leading to increased development costs and time to market. It is thus becoming increasingly clear that business success, in the new era of networked multimedia systems, will be determined by the ability to offer complete system solutions based on a combination of hardware and software, the agility to react quickly to changing market conditions, the capacity to serve more markets with fewer products, and the acuity to offer the right ...