Handbook of Signal Processing Systems is organized in three parts. The first part motivates representative applications that drive and apply state-of-the art methods for design and implementation of signal processing systems; the second part discusses architectures for implementing these applications; the third part focuses on compilers and simulation tools, describes models of computation and their associated design tools and methodologies. This handbook is an essential tool for professionals in many fields and researchers of all levels.

This book puts in focus various techniques for checking modeling fidelity of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), with respect to the physical world they represent. The authors' present modeling and analysis techniques representing different communities, from very different angles, discuss their possible interactions, and discuss the commonalities and differences between their practices. Coverage includes model driven development, resource-driven development, statistical analysis, proofs of simulator implementation, compiler construction, power/temperature modeling of digital devices, high-level performance analysis, and code/device certification. Several industrial contexts are covered, including modeling of computing and communication, proof architectures models and statistical based validation techniques.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2010, held in Hannover, Germany, in February 2010. The 20 revised full papers presented together with 1 keynote lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. This year's special focus is set on heterogeneous systems. The papers are organized in topical sections on processor design, embedded systems, organic computing and self-organization, processor design and transactional memory, energy management in distributed environments and ad-hoc grids, performance modeling and benchmarking, as well as accelerators and GPUs.