Computers As Components

Principles of Embedded System Design
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-1-55860-693-7
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, 600 Seiten

The vast majority of existing computers are embedded in the myriad of intelligent devices and applications-not in desktop machines. We are witnessing the emergence of a new discipline with its own principles, constraints, and design processes.

Computers as Components is the first book to teach this new discipline. It unravels the complexity of these systems and the tools and methods necessary for designing them. Researchers, students, and savvy professionals, schooled in hardware or software, will value the integrated engineering design approach to this fast emerging field.

Demonstrates concepts and techniques using two powerful real-world processors as case studies throughout the book: the ARM processor and the SHARC DSP (digital signal processor).
Illustrates the major concepts of each chapter with real-world design examples such as software modems, telephone answering machines, and video accelerators.
Teaches the basics of UML (Unified Modeling Language) and applies it throughout the text to help you visualize stages in the design process.
Illustrates real-time operating systems using the POSIX real-time extensions and Linux.
Describes performance analysis and optimization of embedded software, including the effects of caches.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wolf, Wayne

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Hochleistungsrechnen, Supercomputer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 - Embedded Computing
Chapter 2 - Instruction Sets
Chapter 3 - CPUs
Chapter 4 - The Embedded Computing Platform
Chapter 5 - Program Design and Analysis
Chapter 6 - Processes and Operating Systems
Chapter 7 - Hardware Accelerators
Chapter 8 - Networks
Chapter 9 - System Design Techniques
Appendix A - UML Notations
Appendix B - Notes on Hardware Design

Über Autor(innen)

Wayne Wolf received the BS, MS, PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1980, 1981, and 1984, respectively. He was with AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1984 through 1989. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University in 1989, where he is now a professor. His research interests include hardware/software co-design and embedded computing, multimedia computing systems, and video libraries. He is a fellow of the IEEE and a member of the ACM and SPIE. He is author of Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design and Modern VLSI Design: A Systems Approach. Also, he is co-series editor of the new Morgan Kaufmann Series in Systems on Silicon.