THE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTS. By Oscar Kempthorne. New York, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1952. 631 pp. $8.50. This book by a teacher of statistics (as well as a consultant for \"experimenters\") is a comprehensive study of the philosophical background for the statistical design of experiment. It is necessary to have some facility with algebraic notation and manipulation to be able to use the volume intelligently. The problems are presented from the theoretical point of view, without such practical examples as would be helpful for those not acquainted with mathematics. The mathematical justification for the techniques is given. As a somewhat advanced treatment of the design and analysis of experiments, this volume will be interesting and helpful for many who approach statistics theoretically as well as practically. With emphasis on the \"why,\" and with description given broadly, the author relates the subject matter to the general theory of statistics and to the general problem of experimental inference. MARGARET J. ROBERTSON

The Design and Analysis of Experiments

[신간의 별자리x] 우리/미술, 그리고 ‘슬픔의 박물관’

https://users.encs.concordia.ca/~ymzhang/publications/ARC32-2-98Zhang_pp.229-252.pdf

Bibliographical review on reconfigurable fault-tolerant control systems

The authors present a software-oriented approach to hardware-software partitioning which avoids restrictions on the software semantics as well as an iterative partitioning process based on hardware extraction controlled by a cost function. This process is used in Cosyma, an experimental cosynthesis system for embedded controllers. As an example, the extraction of coprocessors for loops is demonstrated. Results are presented for several benchmark designs. >

Hardware-software cosynthesis for microcontrollers

Akaike information criterion statistics

This paper presents an architecture description language (ADL) called ArchC, which is an open-source SystemC-based language that is specialized for processor architecture description. Its main goal is to provide enough information, at the right level of abstraction, in order to allow users to explore and verify new architectures, by automatically generating software tools like simulators and coverification interfaces. ArchC's key features are a storage-based co-verification mechanism that automatically checks the consistency of a refined ArchC model against a reference (functional) description, memory hierarchy modeling capability, the possibility of integration with other SystemC IPs and the automatic generation of high-level SystemC simulators and assemblers. We have used ArchC to synthesize both functional and cycle-based simulators for the MIPS and Intel 8051 processors, as well as functional models of architectures like SPARC V8, TMS320C62x, XScale and PowerPC.

The ArchC architecture description language and tools

In this paper we introduce a method to partition UNITY system speci cations into software and hardware parts. This method considers di erent design possibilities and de nes cost functions to nd out the most suitable one under given design constraint in terms of hardware-software trade-o .

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A method for partitioning UNITY language in hardware and software

Extreme Value Theory (EVT) is a powerful statistical framework for estimating maximum values of random variables and has recently been applied for deriving probabilistic bounds on task execution times (pWCET). Task execution time data are collected from measurements and the maximum measured values are fit to an extreme value model. In this paper we provide a careful study on the applicability and effectiveness of EVT in this application field. The study is based on extensive experiments for which we have designed an embedded platform equipped with random cache of configurable sizes. Based on evidences of the experiments, we provide the following contributions: we give a new definition of pWCET that conforms with the fact that pWCET estimates depend on input data distribution used during analysis, we show that using the Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) distribution is necessary since the more restrictive modeling, based on the Gumbel distribution, may yield unsafe or over-estimated values of pWCET, we confirm that hardware randomization favors the applicability of EVT, although it does not ensure it since the distribution of maxima for execution time data are not guaranteed to be analyzable via EVT.

Extreme Value Theory for Estimating Task Execution Time Bounds: A Careful Look

The authors present a method for partitioning a problem specification into hardware and a software implementation. A partitioning approach can be supported by the use of a specification language that permits considering several partitioning possibilities for the problem as well as analyzing different implementation alternatives of each part of the problem. These requirements are fulfilled in the approach by the use of UNITY as the specification language. The approach presented consists of classification of statements, a clustering algorithm, and cluster allocation, as well as cost and constraint analysis. The method is explained with an example. >

A method for hardware software partitioning

This work presents Petri nets as an intermediate model for hardware/software codesign The main reason of using of Petri nets is to provide a model that allows for formal qualitative and quantitative analysis in order to perform hardware/software partitioning Petri nets as an intermediate model allows one to analyze properties of the specification and formally compute performance indices which are used in the partitioning process This paper highlights methods of computing load balance, mutual exclusion degree and communication cost of behavioral description in order to perform the initial allocation and the partitioning This work is also devoted to describing a method for estimating hardware area, and it also presents an overview of the general partitioning method considering multiple software components

http://dz5.pl/ti/Materialy/A%20Petri%20Net%20Model%20For%20Hardware-Software%20Codesign.pdf

Edna Barros

Papers

The ArchC architecture description language and tools

A method for partitioning UNITY language in hardware and software

Extreme Value Theory for Estimating Task Execution Time Bounds: A Careful Look

A method for hardware software partitioning

A Petri Net Model for Hardware/Software Codesign