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Informationen zum Autor JOSEPH A. FISHER is a Hewlett-Packard Senior Fellow at HP Labs, where he has worked since 1990 in instruction-level parallelism and in custom embedded VLIW processors and their compilers. Josh studied at the Courant Institute of NYU (B.A., M.A., and then Ph.D. in 1979), where he devised the trace scheduling compiler algorithm and coined the term instruction-level parallelism. As a professor at Yale University, he created and named VLIW architectures and invented many of the fundamental technologies of ILP. In 1984, he started Multiflow Computer with two members of his Yale team. Josh won an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984, was the 1987 Connecticut Eli Whitney Entrepreneur of the Year, and in 2003 received the ACM/IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award. He is also the recipient of the 2012 IEEE Computer Society B. Ramakrishna Rau Award, recognizing his work in the development of trace scheduling compilation and pioneering work in VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) architectures. Klappentext The fact that there are more embedded computers than general-purpose computers and that we are impacted by hundreds of them every day is no longer news. What is news is that their increasing performance requirements, complexity and capabilities demand a new approach to their design. Fisher, Faraboschi, and Young describe a new age of embedded computing design, in which the processor is central, making the approach radically distinct from contemporary practices of embedded systems design. They demonstrate why it is essential to take a computing-centric and system-design approach to the traditional elements of nonprogrammable components, peripherals, interconnects and buses. These elements must be unified in a system design with high-performance processor architectures, microarchitectures and compilers, and with the compilation tools, debuggers and simulators needed for application development. In this landmark text, the authors apply their expertise in highly interdisciplinary hardware/software development and VLIW processors to illustrate this change in embedded computing. VLIW architectures have long been a popular choice in embedded systems design, and while VLIW is a running theme throughout the book, embedded computing is the core topic. Embedded Computing examines both in a book filled with fact and opinion based on the authors many years of R&D experience. Zusammenfassung Describes an embedded computing design! in which the processor is central. This book demonstrates why it is essential to take a computing-centric and system-design approach to the traditional elements of nonprogrammable components! peripherals! interconnects and buses. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceChapter 1: An Introduction to Embedded ProcessingChapter 2: An Overview of VLIW and ILPChapter 3: An Overview of ISA DesignChapter 4: Architectural Structures in ISA design Chapter 5: Microarchitecture Design Chapter 6: System Design and SimulationChapter 7: Embedded Compiling and Toolchains Chapter 8: Compiling for VLIWs and ILP Chapter 9: The Run-time System Chapter 10: Application Design and Customization Chapter 11: Application Areas Appendix A: The VEX System Appendix B: Glossary Appendix C: Bibliography...
