The task of the system architect is to take the correct early decisions despite the uncertainties.

Power-Aware Architecting provides a systematic way to support the system architect in this job. Therefore, an inerative system-level design approach is defined where iterations are based on fast and accurate estimations or predictions of area, performance and energy consumption. This method is illustrated with a concrete real life example multi-carrier communication. This book is the result of a Ph.D. thesis, which is part of the UbiCom project at Delft University of Technology, I strongly recommend it to any engineer, expert or specialist, who is interested in designing embedded systems-on-a-chip.

Content - 1 Introduction, 2 Design trade-offs, 3 Architecting with uncertainties, 4 Multi-carrier communications, 5 Application, 6 Conclusion, A Ubiquitous Communications, B Mixed integer programming, C Possibilistic linear programming, Bibliography, References, Index