Predictable embedded multiprocessor system design

Consumers have high expectations about the video and audio quality delivered by media processing devices like TV-sets, DVD-players and digital radios. Predictable heterogenous application domain specific multiprocessor systems, which are designed around a networks-on-chip, can meet demanding performance, flexibility and power-efficiency requirements as well as stringent timing requirements. The timing requirements can be guaranteed by making use of resource management techniques and the analytical techniques that are described in this paper.