Authors:Prabhat Mishra, Nikil D. Dutt,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: top, approach, architectures, embedded, verification, programmable, functional
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 0387261435
ISBN-13: 9780387261430

Validation of programmable architectures, consisting of processor cores, coprocessors, and memory subsystems, is one of the major bottlenecks in current System-on-Chip design methodology. A critical challenge in validation of such systems is the lack of a golden reference model. As a result, many existing validation techniques employ a bottom-up approach to design verification, where the functionality of an existing architecture is, in essence, reverse-engineered from its implementation. Traditional validation techniques employ different reference models depending on the abstraction level and

Authors:Sudeep Pasricha, Nikil Dutt,
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Keywords: chip, systems, silicon, interconnect, system, communication, architectures
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2008-05-13
List price: $72.95
ISBN-10: 012373892X
ISBN-13: 9780123738929

Over the past decade, system-on-chip (SoC) designs have evolved to address the ever increasing complexity of applications, fueled by the era of digital convergence. Improvements in process technology have effectively shrunk board-level components so they can be integrated on a single chip. New on-chip communication architectures have been designed to support all inter-component communication in a SoC design. These communication architecture fabrics have a critical impact on the power consumption, performance, cost and design cycle time of modern SoC designs. As application complexity strains

Authors:Prabhat Mishra, Nikil Dutt,
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Keywords: systems, silicon, volume, languages, description, processor
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2008-06-12
List price: $83.95
ISBN-10: 0123742870
ISBN-13: 9780123742872

Efficient design of embedded processors plays a critical role in embedded systems design. Processor description languages and their associated specification, exploration and rapid prototyping methodologies are used to find the best possible design for a given set of applications under various design constraints, such as area, power and performance. This book is the first, comprehensive survey of modern architecture description languages and will be an invaluable reference for embedded system architects, designers, developers, and validation engineers. Readers will see that the use of particu

Authors:Peter Grun, Nikil D. Dutt, Alexandru Nicolau,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: embedded, systems, programmable, exploration, architecture, memory
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2002-12-31
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 1402073240
ISBN-13: 9781402073243

Memory Architecture Exploration for Programmable Embedded Systems addresses efficient exploration of alternative memory architectures, assisted by a "compiler-in-the-loop" that allows effective matching of the target application to the processor-memory architecture. This new approach for memory architecture exploration replaces the traditional black-box view of the memory system and allows for aggressive co-optimization of the programmable processor together with a customized memory system. The book concludes with a set of experiments demonstrating the utility of this exploration approach. The

Authors:Preeti Ranjan Panda, Nikil D. Dutt, Alexandru Nico
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: optimizations, exploration, chip, systems, issues, embedded, memory
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 1998-10-31
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 0792383621
ISBN-13: 9780792383628

Memory Issues in Embedded Systems-On-Chip: Optimizations and Explorations is designed for different groups in the embedded systems-on-chip arena. First, it is designed for researchers and graduate students who wish to understand the research issues involved in memory system optimization and exploration for embedded systems-on-chip. Second, it is intended for designers of embedded systems who are migrating from a traditional micro-controllers centered, board-based design methodology to newer design methodologies using IP blocks for processor-core-based embedded systems-on-chip. Also, since Memo

Authors:Sumit Gupta, Rajesh Gupta, Nikil Dutt, Alexandru Nico
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: digital, circuits, synthesis, level, parallelizing, approach, spark
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 2004-05
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 1402078374
ISBN-13: 9781402078378

Rapid advances in microelectronic integration and the advent of Systems-on-Chip have fueled the need for high-level synthesis, i.e., an automated approach to the synthesis of hardware from behavioral descriptions. SPARK: A Parallelizing Approach to the High - Level Synthesis of Digital Circuits presents a novel approach to the high-level synthesis of digital circuits -- that of parallelizing high-level synthesis (PHLS). This approach uses aggressive code parallelizing and code motion techniques to discover circuit optimization opportunities beyond what is possible with traditional high-level

Author: Nikil Jayant
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: communications, signal, processing, multimedia, technologies, last, access, broadband
Number of Pages: 680
Published: 2005-05-02
List price: $173.95
ISBN-10: 0824758862
ISBN-13: 9780824758868

Broadband Last Mile: Access Technologies for Multimedia Communications provides in-depth treatments of access technologies and the applications that rely upon them or support them. It examines innovations and enhancements along multiple dimensions in access, with the overarching goal of ensuring that the last mile is not the weak link in the broadband chain. Written by experts from the academic and commercial segments of the field, the book’s self-contained sections address topics related to the disciplines of communications, networking, computing, and signal processing.The core of this