Software-Driven Hardware Development
Myron King, Jamey Hicks, John Ankcorn · 2015
The cost and complexity of hardware-centric systems can often be reduced by using software to perform tasks which don't appear on the critical path. Alternately, the performance of software can sometimes be improved by using special purpose hardware to implement tasks which do appear on the critical path. Whatever the motivation, most modern systems are composed of both hardware and software components.