Engineering the Complex SOC: Fast, Flexible Design with Configurable Processors - Couverture souple

Rowen, Chris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0131455370 ISBN 13 : 9780131455375

Editeur : Prentice Hall, 2004

Synopsis

Engineering the Complex SOC

The first unified hardware/software guide to processor-centric SOC design

Processor-centric approaches enable SOC designers to complete far larger projects in far less time. Engineering the Complex SOCis a comprehensive, example-driven guide to creating designs with configurable, extensible processors. Drawing upon Tensilica’s Xtensa architecture and TIE language, Dr. Chris Rowen systematically illuminates the issues, opportunities, and challenges of processor-centric design.

Rowen introduces a radically new design methodology, then covers its essential techniques: processor configuration, extension, hardware/software co-generation, multiple processor partitioning/communication, and more. Coverage includes:

• Why extensible processors are necessary: shortcomings of current design methods

• Comparing extensible processors to traditional processors and hardwired logic

• Extensible processor architecture and mechanisms of processor extensibility

• Latency, throughput, coordination of parallel functions, hardware interconnect options, management of design complexity, and other issues

• Multiple-processor SOC architecture for embedded systems

• Task design from the viewpoints of software andhardware developers

• Advanced techniques: implementing complex state machines, task-to-task synchronization, power optimization, and more

• Toward a “sea of processors”: Long-term trends in SOC design and semiconductor technology

For all architects, hardware engineers, software designers, and SOC program managers involved with complex SOC design; and for all managers investing in SOC designs, platforms, processors, or expertise.

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About the Author

DR. CHRIS ROWEN is President, CEO, and Founder of Tensilica, a leader in the automatic generation of application-specific microprocessors for high-volume systems. He pioneered RISC architecture at Stanford, helped start MIPS Computer Systems, and served as VP/General Manager of the Design Reuse Group at Synopsys. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prentice Hall
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0131455370
• ISBN 13: 9780131455375
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 492
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible