With VSP-TAP, real code executes at real speed on the chosen target microprocessor, in or out of the target system. The complexity of embedded systems software has grown dramatically. As a result, the software-hardware integration phase, which represents the critical path for an embedded systems project, has become much more challenging. Applied Microsystems plug their products in this paper, which is mostly a cost justification of spending money on tools to save engineering time. The Architecture Exploration Process Architecture exploration is the process of generating and evaluating several hardware and software architectures from a formal system level specification.
Productivity is gained by working at higher levels of design abstraction.
Xtensa is a configurable and extensible 32-bit processor core.