Select Appropriate Communication Characteristics

Thus, one of the trade-off in the selection of the number and characteristics of platforms relates to the size of the design space. The library of functions, module-options, and communication components form the design space that can be explored at the appropriate level of abstraction. The downside is that they restrict the design space with a structured search space on the platform that prevents adoption of other design options that could lower costs and produce a better success-rate (Carloni et al. 2000). 

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