Software Architecture

Software Architecture
Author: Danny Weyns
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2015-09-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319237276

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2015, held in Cavtat, Croatia in September 2015. The 12 full papers and 15 short papers presented together with three education and training papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: adaptation; design approaches; decisions and social aspects; education and training; cloud and green; agile and smart systems; analysis and automation; services and ecosystems.

Reconfigurable System Design and Verification

Reconfigurable System Design and Verification
Author: Pao-Ann Hsiung
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2018-10-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1420062670

Reconfigurable systems have pervaded nearly all fields of computation and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Reconfigurable System Design and Verification provides a compendium of design and verification techniques for reconfigurable systems, allowing you to quickly search for a technique and determine if it is appropriate to the task at hand. It bridges the gap between the need for reconfigurable computing education and the burgeoning development of numerous different techniques in the design and verification of reconfigurable systems in various application domains. The text explains topics in such a way that they can be immediately grasped and put into practice. It starts with an overview of reconfigurable computing architectures and platforms and demonstrates how to develop reconfigurable systems. This sets up the discussion of the hardware, software, and system techniques that form the core of the text. The authors classify design and verification techniques into primary and secondary categories, allowing the appropriate ones to be easily located and compared. The techniques discussed range from system modeling and system-level design to co-simulation and formal verification. Case studies illustrating real-world applications, detailed explanations of complex algorithms, and self-explaining illustrations add depth to the presentation. Comprehensively covering all techniques related to the hardware-software design and verification of reconfigurable systems, this book provides a single source for information that otherwise would have been dispersed among the literature, making it very difficult to search, compare, and select the technique most suitable. The authors do it all for you, making it easy to find the techniques that fit your system requirements, without having to surf the net or digital libraries to find the candidate techniques and compare them yourself.

Dynamically Reconfigurable Systems

Dynamically Reconfigurable Systems
Author: Marco Platzner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2010-03-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9048134854

Dynamically Reconfigurable Systems is the first ever to focus on the emerging field of Dynamically Reconfigurable Computing Systems. While programmable logic and design-time configurability are well elaborated and covered by various texts, this book presents a unique overview over the state of the art and recent results for dynamic and run-time reconfigurable computing systems. Reconfigurable hardware is not only of utmost importance for large manufacturers and vendors of microelectronic devices and systems, but also a very attractive technology for smaller and medium-sized companies. Hence, Dynamically Reconfigurable Systems also addresses researchers and engineers actively working in the field and provides them with information on the newest developments and trends in dynamic and run-time reconfigurable systems.

Reconfigurable Computing

Reconfigurable Computing
Author: Joao Cardoso
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2011-08-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1461400619

As the complexity of modern embedded systems increases, it becomes less practical to design monolithic processing platforms. As a result, reconfigurable computing is being adopted widely for more flexible design. Reconfigurable Computers offer the spatial parallelism and fine-grained customizability of application-specific circuits with the postfabrication programmability of software. To make the most of this unique combination of performance and flexibility, designers need to be aware of both hardware and software issues. FPGA users must think not only about the gates needed to perform a computation but also about the software flow that supports the design process. The goal of this book is to help designers become comfortable with these issues, and thus be able to exploit the vast opportunities possible with reconfigurable logic.

Microelectronic Systems

Microelectronic Systems
Author: Albert Heuberger
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2011-12-26
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642230709

This book is dedicated to Prof. Dr. Heinz Gerhäuser on the occasion of his retirement both from the position of Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS and from the Endowed Chair of Information Technologies with a Focus on Communication Electronics (LIKE) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Heinz Gerhäuser's vision and entrepreneurial spirit have made the Fraunhofer IIS one of the most successful and renowned German research institutions. He has been Director of the Fraunhofer IIS since 1993, and under his leadership it has grown to become the largest of Germany's 60 Fraunhofer Institutes, a position it retains to this day, currently employing over 730 staff. Likely his most important scientific as well as application-related contribution was his pivotal role in the development of the mp3 format, which would later become a worldwide success. The contributions to this Festschrift were written by both Fraunhofer IIS staff and external project team members in appreciation of Prof. Dr. Gerhäuser's lifetime academic achievements and his inspiring leadership at the Fraunhofer IIS. The papers reflect the broad spectrum of the institute's research activities and are grouped into sections on circuits, information systems, visual computing, and audio and multimedia. They provide academic and industrial researchers in fields like signal processing, sensor networks, microelectronics, and integrated circuits with an up-to-date overview of research results that have a huge potential for cutting-edge industrial applications.

Many-Core Computing

Many-Core Computing
Author: Bashir M. Al-Hashimi
Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2019-05-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1785615823

Computing has moved away from a focus on performance-centric serial computation, instead towards energy-efficient parallel computation. This provides continued performance increases without increasing clock frequencies, and overcomes the thermal and power limitations of the dark-silicon era. As the number of parallel cores increases, we transition into the many-core computing era. There is considerable interest in developing methods, tools, architectures and applications to support many-core computing.

Network-on-Chip Security and Privacy

Network-on-Chip Security and Privacy
Author: Prabhat Mishra
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2021-06-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030691314

This book provides comprehensive coverage of Network-on-Chip (NoC) security vulnerabilities and state-of-the-art countermeasures, with contributions from System-on-Chip (SoC) designers, academic researchers and hardware security experts. Readers will gain a clear understanding of the existing security solutions for on-chip communication architectures and how they can be utilized effectively to design secure and trustworthy systems.

Partial Reconfiguration on FPGAs

Partial Reconfiguration on FPGAs
Author: Dirk Koch
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012-07-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1461412250

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. Case studies in partial reconfiguration guide readers through the FPGA jungle, straight toward a working system. The discussion of partial reconfiguration is comprehensive and practical, with models introduced together with methods to implement efficiently the corresponding systems. Coverage includes concepts for partial module integration and corresponding communication architectures, floorplanning of the on-FPGA resources, physical implementation aspects starting from constraining primitive placement and routing all the way down to the bitstream required to configure the FPGA, and verification of reconfigurable systems.