ABSTRACT

The past decade witnessed the shrinking of the chips’ size simultaneously with the expansion of a number of components, heterogeneous architectures, and systems specific to different application domains, for example, electronic, mechanics, optics, and radio frequency (RF) integrated on the same chip [16]. These heterogeneous systems enable cost-efficient solutions, an advantageous time-to-market, and high productivity. However, one will notice the increase of the variability of design related parameters. Given their application in various domains such as defense, medical, communication, and automotive, the continuous/discrete (C/D) systems emerge as important heterogeneous systems. This chapter focuses on these systems, their modeling and simulation.