As the Codesign problems become more and more complex, characterizing the scheduling and allocation details of the tasks with macroscopic magnitudes easy to handle, can help to solve them in an efficient way.
Citation:
J.A. Maestro, D. Mozos, R. Hermida, "The Heterogeneous Structure Problem in Hardware/Software Codesign: A Macroscopic Approach," date, pp.766, Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE '99), 1999