This book shows readers how to develop energy-efficient algorithms and hardware architectures to enable high-definition 3D video coding on resource-constrained embedded devices.
This book describes a new design approach for energy-efficient, Domain-Specific Instruction set Processor (DSIP) architectures for the wireless baseband domain.
This book provides techniques to tackle the design challenges raised by the increasing diversity and complexity of emerging, heterogeneous architectures for embedded systems.
Multiprocessor platforms play important roles in modern computing systems, and appear in various applications, ranging from energy-limited hand-held devices to large data centers.
This book provides a unified overview of network-on-chip router micro-architecture, the corresponding design opportunities and challenges, and existing solutions to overcome these challenges.
This book offers readers broad coverage of techniques to model, verify and validate the behavior and performance of complex distributed embedded systems.
This textbook serves as an introduction to the subject of embedded systems design, with emphasis on integration of custom hardware components with software.
This book discusses the opportunities offered by disruptive technologies to overcome the economical and physical limits currently faced by the electronics industry.
This book provides comprehensive coverage of verification and debugging techniques for embedded software, which is frequently used in safety critical applications (e.
This book describes a specification, microarchitecture, VHDL implementation and evaluation of a SPARC v8 CPU with fine-grain multi-threading, called micro-threading.
This is the first book to focus on designing run-time reconfigurable systems on FPGAs, in order to gain resource and power efficiency, as well as to improve speed.
Compact Models and Measurement Techniques for High-Speed Interconnects provides detailed analysis of issues related to high-speed interconnects from the perspective of modeling approaches and measurement techniques.
This book brings together a selection of the best papers from the thirteenth edition of the Forum on specification and Design Languages Conference (FDL), which was held in Southampton, UK in September 2010.
This book presents the methodologies and for embedded systems design, using field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices, for the most modern applications.
This book covers state-of-the art techniques for high-level modeling and validation of complex hardware/software systems, including those with multicore architectures.
Given the widespread use of real-time multitasking systems, there are tremendous optimization opportunities if reconfigurable computing can be effectively incorporated while maintaining performance and other design constraints of typical applications.
This book introduces Open Core Protocol (OCP) not as a conventional hardware communications protocol but as a meta-protocol: a means for describing and capturing the communications requirements of an IP core, and mapping them to a specific set of signals with known semantics.
This book highlights the complex issues, tasks and skills that must be mastered by an IP designer, in order to design an optimized and robust digital circuit to solve a problem.
At the initiative of the IBM Almaden Research Center and the National Science Foundation, a workshop on "e;Opportunities and Constraints of Parallel Computing"e; was held in San Jose, California, on December 5-6, 1988.
Widespread use of parallel processing will become a reality only if the process of porting applications to parallel computers can be largely automated.
Concurrent data structures simplify the development of concurrent programs by encapsulating commonly used mechanisms for synchronization and commu- nication into data structures.