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In recent years, heterogeneous architectures have been widely used in digital system design, so that these heterogeneous platforms are employed to achieve low power consumption, high performance, and high reliability. In other words, heterogeneous multi-core systems are promising solutions to provide a wide range of possibilities in compromising the low power/energy consumption, high reliability, and high performance. Most heterogeneous systems have several different islands (in terms of core types, supply voltage, and frequency) that each of them consists of several homogeneous cores. Due to the heterogeneity, the values of power consumption, and reliability of the tasks are differentt,... 

Nowadays, implementing a complex system, which executes various applications with different levels of assurance, is a growing trend in modern embedded real- time systems to meet cost, space, timing, and power consumption requirements. Medical devices, automotive, and avionics industries are the most common safety- critical applications, exploiting these systems known as Mixed-Criticality (MC) systems. MC applications are real-time, and to ensure the correctness of these applications, it is essential to meet strict timing requirements as well as functional specifications. The correct design of such MC systems requires a thorough understanding of the system’s functions and their importance to...