Advances in Computer Systems Architecture

Advances in Computer Systems Architecture
Author: Thambipillai Srikanthan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 850
Release: 2005-10-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540296433

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference, ACSAC 2005, held in Singapore in October 2005. The 65 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 173 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on energy efficient and power aware techniques, methodologies and architectures for application-specific systems, processor architectures and microarchitectures, high-reliability and fault-tolerant architectures, compiler and OS for emerging architectures, data value predictions, reconfigurable computing systems and polymorphic architectures, interconnect networks and network interfaces, parallel architectures and computation models, hardware-software partitioning, verification, and testing of complex architectures, architectures for secured computing, simulation and performance evaluation, architectures for emerging technologies and applications, and memory systems hierarchy and management.

Digital VLSI Chip Design with Cadence and Synopsys CAD Tools

Digital VLSI Chip Design with Cadence and Synopsys CAD Tools
Author: Erik Brunvand
Publisher: Pearson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Integrated circuits
ISBN: 9780321547996

Digital VLSI Chip Design with Cadence and Synopsys CAD Tools leads students through the complete process of building a ready-to-fabricate CMOS integrated circuit using popular commercial design software. Detailed tutorials include step-by-step instructions and screen shots of tool windows and dialog boxes. This hands-on book is for use in conjunction with a primary textbook on digital VLSI. University instructors may order Digital VLSI Chip Design with Cadence and Synopsys CAD Tools with the following textbooks: [Rabaey Cover Image] Digital Integrated Circuits, 2nd Edition, by Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, and Borivoje Nikoli. To order Digital Integrated Circuits, 2nd Edition packaged with Digital VLSI Chip Design with Cadence and Synopsys CAD Tools, please use ISBN 0-13-509470-4 on your bookstore order form. [Weste Cover Image] CMOS VLSI Design, 3rd Edition, by Neil H.E. Weste and David Harris. To order CMOS VLSI Design, 3rd Edition packaged with Digital VLSI Chip Design with Cadence and Synopsys CAD Tools, please use ISBN 0-13-509469-0 on your bookstore order form. For further details, please contact your local Pearson (Addison-Wesley and Prentice Hall) sales representative or visit www.pearsonhighered.com.

Fabless

Fabless
Author: Daniel Nenni
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Integrated circuits industry
ISBN: 9781497525047

The purpose of this book is to illustrate the magnificence of the fabless semiconductor ecosystem, and to give credit where credit is due. We trace the history of the semiconductor industry from both a technical and business perspective. We argue that the development of the fabless business model was a key enabler of the growth in semiconductors since the mid-1980s. Because business models, as much as the technology, are what keep us thrilled with new gadgets year after year, we focus on the evolution of the electronics business. We also invited key players in the industry to contribute chapters. These "In Their Own Words" chapters allow the heavyweights of the industry to tell their corporate history for themselves, focusing on the industry developments (both in technology and business models) that made them successful, and how they in turn drive the further evolution of the semiconductor industry.

System-on-Chip Methodologies & Design Languages

System-on-Chip Methodologies & Design Languages
Author: Peter J. Ashenden
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1475732813

System-on-Chip Methodologies & Design Languages brings together a selection of the best papers from three international electronic design language conferences in 2000. The conferences are the Hardware Description Language Conference and Exhibition (HDLCon), held in the Silicon Valley area of USA; the Forum on Design Languages (FDL), held in Europe; and the Asia Pacific Chip Design Language (APChDL) Conference. The papers cover a range of topics, including design methods, specification and modeling languages, tool issues, formal verification, simulation and synthesis. The results presented in these papers will help researchers and practicing engineers keep abreast of developments in this rapidly evolving field.

FPGA Implementations of Neural Networks

FPGA Implementations of Neural Networks
Author: Amos R. Omondi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2006-10-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0387284877

During the 1980s and early 1990s there was signi?cant work in the design and implementation of hardware neurocomputers. Nevertheless, most of these efforts may be judged to have been unsuccessful: at no time have have ha- ware neurocomputers been in wide use. This lack of success may be largely attributed to the fact that earlier work was almost entirely aimed at developing custom neurocomputers, based on ASIC technology, but for such niche - eas this technology was never suf?ciently developed or competitive enough to justify large-scale adoption. On the other hand, gate-arrays of the period m- tioned were never large enough nor fast enough for serious arti?cial-neur- network (ANN) applications. But technology has now improved: the capacity and performance of current FPGAs are such that they present a much more realistic alternative. Consequently neurocomputers based on FPGAs are now a much more practical proposition than they have been in the past. This book summarizes some work towards this goal and consists of 12 papers that were selected, after review, from a number of submissions. The book is nominally divided into three parts: Chapters 1 through 4 deal with foundational issues; Chapters 5 through 11 deal with a variety of implementations; and Chapter 12 looks at the lessons learned from a large-scale project and also reconsiders design issues in light of current and future technology.

ASIC/SoC Functional Design Verification

ASIC/SoC Functional Design Verification
Author: Ashok B. Mehta
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2017-06-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319594184

This book describes in detail all required technologies and methodologies needed to create a comprehensive, functional design verification strategy and environment to tackle the toughest job of guaranteeing first-pass working silicon. The author first outlines all of the verification sub-fields at a high level, with just enough depth to allow an engineer to grasp the field before delving into its detail. He then describes in detail industry standard technologies such as UVM (Universal Verification Methodology), SVA (SystemVerilog Assertions), SFC (SystemVerilog Functional Coverage), CDV (Coverage Driven Verification), Low Power Verification (Unified Power Format UPF), AMS (Analog Mixed Signal) verification, Virtual Platform TLM2.0/ESL (Electronic System Level) methodology, Static Formal Verification, Logic Equivalency Check (LEC), Hardware Acceleration, Hardware Emulation, Hardware/Software Co-verification, Power Performance Area (PPA) analysis on a virtual platform, Reuse Methodology from Algorithm/ESL to RTL, and other overall methodologies.

A Practical Approach to VLSI System on Chip (SoC) Design

A Practical Approach to VLSI System on Chip (SoC) Design
Author: Veena S. Chakravarthi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2022-12-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3031183630

Now in a thoroughly revised second edition, this practical practitioner guide provides a comprehensive overview of the SoC design process. It explains end-to-end system on chip (SoC) design processes and includes updated coverage of design methodology, the design environment, EDA tool flow, design decisions, choice of design intellectual property (IP) cores, sign-off procedures, and design infrastructure requirements. The second edition provides new information on SOC trends and updated design cases. Coverage also includes critical advanced guidance on the latest UPF-based low power design flow, challenges of deep submicron technologies, and 3D design fundamentals, which will prepare the readers for the challenges of working at the nanotechnology scale. A Practical Approach to VLSI System on Chip (SoC) Design: A Comprehensive Guide, Second Edition provides engineers who aspire to become VLSI designers with all the necessary information and details of EDA tools. It will be a valuable professional reference for those working on VLSI design and verification portfolios in complex SoC designs

Hardware Design and Petri Nets

Hardware Design and Petri Nets
Author: Alex Yakovlev
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1475731434

Hardware Design and Petri Nets presents a summary of the state of the art in the applications of Petri nets to designing digital systems and circuits. The area of hardware design has traditionally been a fertile field for research in concurrency and Petri nets. Many new ideas about modelling and analysis of concurrent systems, and Petri nets in particular, originated in theory of asynchronous digital circuits. Similarly, the theory and practice of digital circuit design have always recognized Petri nets as a powerful and easy-to-understand modelling tool. The ever-growing demand in the electronic industry for design automation to build various types of computer-based systems creates many opportunities for Petri nets to establish their role of a formal backbone in future tools for constructing systems that are increasingly becoming distributed, concurrent and asynchronous. Petri nets have already proved very effective in supporting algorithms for solving key problems in synthesis of hardware control circuits. However, since the front end to any realistic design flow in the future is likely to rely on more pragmatic Hardware Description Languages (HDLs), such as VHDL and Verilog, it is crucial that Petri nets are well interfaced to such languages. Hardware Design and Petri Nets is divided into five parts, which cover aspects of behavioral modelling, analysis and verification, synthesis from Petri nets and STGs, design environments based on high-level Petri nets and HDLs, and finally performance analysis using Petri nets. Hardware Design and Petri Nets serves as an excellent reference source and may be used as a text for advanced courses on the subject.