Profiling and Analysis of Dynamic Applications

As explained in Chap. 2, the problem of optimizing the design of dynamic embedded systems lays on exploiting as much as possible static (design-time) knowledge on the applications, but still leaving space for run-time considerations that allow tackling dynamic variations without resorting to worst case solutions. This requires extensive information about the static and dynamic characteristics of the applications. However, there is not a standard definition or representation of software metadata to typify the characteristics of the dynamic data access behavior of applications because of varying inputs.