
High-Performance Embedded Computing
Architectures, Applications, and Methodologies
- 1st Edition - April 4, 2014
- Author: Wayne Wolf
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 6 9 4 8 5 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 7 5 0 0 - 4
Over the past several years, embedded systems have emerged as an integral though unseen part of many consumer, industrial, and military devices. The explosive growth of these… Read more

- Covers advanced topics in embedded computing, including multiprocessors, VLIW and superscalar architectures, and power consumption
- Provides in-depth coverage of networks, reconfigurable systems, hardware-software co-design, security, and program analysis
- Includes examples of many real-world embedded computing applications (cell phones, printers, digital video) and architectures (the Freescale Starcore, TI OMAP multiprocessor, the TI C5000 and C6000 series, and others)
1 Embedded Computing
1.1 The Landscape of High-Performance Embedded Computing
1.2 Example Applications
1.3 Design Goals
1.4 Design Methodologies
1.5 Models of Computation
1.6 Reliability, Safety, and Security
1.7 Consumer Electronics Architectures
1.8 Summary and a Look Ahead
What We Learned
Further Reading
Questions
Lab Exercises
2 CPUs
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Comparing Processors
2.3 RISC Processors and Digital Signal Processors
2.4 Parallel Execution Mechanisms
2.5 Variable-Performance CPU Architectures
2.6 Processor Memory Hierarchy
2.7 Additional CPU Mechanisms
2.8 CPU Simulation
2.9 Automated CPU Design
2.10 Summary
What We Learned
Further Reading
Questions
Lab Exercises
3 Programs
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Code Generation and Back-End Compilation
3.3 Memory-Oriented Optimizations
3.4 Program Performance Analysis
3.5 Models of Computation and Programming
3.6 Summary
What We Learned
Further Reading
Questions
Lab Exercises
4 Processes and Operating Systems
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Real-Time Process Scheduling
4.3 Languages and Scheduling
4.4 Operating System Design
4.5 Verification
4.6 Summary
What We Learned
Further Reading
Questions
Lab Exercises
5 Multiprocessor Architectures
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Why Embedded Multiprocessors?
5.3 Multiprocessor Design Techniques
5.4 Multiprocessor Architectures
5.5 Processing Elements
5.6 Interconnection Networks
5.7 Memory Systems
5.8 Physically Distributed Systems and Networks
5.9 Multiprocessor Design Methodologies and Algorithms
5.10 Summary
What We Learned
Further Reading
Questions
Lab Exercises
6 Multiprocessor Software
6.1 Introduction
6.2 What Is Different About Embedded Multiprocessor Software?
6.3 Real-Time Multiprocessor Operating Systems
6.4 Services and Middleware for Embedded Multiprocessors
6.5 Design Verification
6.6 Summary
What We Learned
Further Reading
Questions
Lab Exercises
7 Hardware/Software Co-Design
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Design Platforms
7.3 Performance Analysis
7.4 Hardware/Software Co-Synthesis Algorithms
7.5 Hardware/Software Co-Simulation
7.6 Summary
What We Learned
Further Reading
Questions
Lab Exercises
Glossary
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 4, 2014
- Language: English
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Wayne Wolf
Computing, and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar at the Georgia Institute of
Technology. Before joining Georgia Tech, he was with Princeton University and AT&T
Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in
electrical engineering from Stanford University. He is well known for his research in the
areas of hardware/software co-design, embedded computing, VLSI CAD, and multimedia
computing systems. He is a fellow of the IEEE and ACM. He co-founded several
conferences in the area, including CODES, MPSoC, and Embedded Systems Week. He
was founding co-editor-in-chief of Design Automation for Embedded Systems and
founding editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. He has
received the ASEE Frederick E. Terman Award and the IEEE Circuits and Society Education Award. He is also series editor of the Morgan Kaufmann Series in Systems on
Silicon.