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Describes in a consolidated way the results of a three-year research project, during which researchers from leading european industrial companies and research institutes have been working together. Contributors come from academia and industry, such companies as INTRACOM, VTT and Nokia being represented
Proposes brand new approaches based on SystemC and OCAPI-XL that explicitly handle issues related to reconfiguration at the system level
Introduces a design flow for designing reconfigurable systems-on-chip
Provides a comprehensive introduction to reconfigurable hardware and existing reconfigurable technologies
Presents examples on how reconfigurable hardware can be exploited for the development of complex systems
Provides useful feedback from the application of the proposed design flow and system level design methods on different real life design cases
Sommario
Contributing Authors. Preface. Acknowledgments. Reconfigurable Systems. Introduction to Reconfigurable Hardware; KONSTANTINOS MASSELOS AND NIKOLAOS S. VOROS. Reconfigurable hardware exploitation in Wireless Multimedia Communications; KONSTANTINOS MASSELOS AND NIKOLAOS S. VOROS. Reconfigurable Hardware Technologies; KONSTANTINOS MASSELOS AND NIKOLAOS S. VOROS. System Level Design Methodology. Design Flow for Reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip; KONSTANTINOS MASSELOS AND NIKOLAOS S. VOROS. SystemC Based Approach; YANG QU AND KARI TIENSYRJÄ. OCAPI-XL Based Approach; MIROSLAV ÈUPÁK AND LUC RIJNDERS. Design Cases. MPEG-4 Video Decoder; MIROSLAV ÈUPÁK AND LUC RIJNDERS. Prototyping of a HIPERLAN/2 Reconfigurable System-on-Chip; KONSTANTINOS MASSELOS AND NIKOLAOS S. VOROS. WCDMA Detector; YANG QU, MARKO PETTISSALO AND KARI TIENSYRJÄ.
Riassunto
System Level Design of Reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip provides insight in the challenges and difficulties encountered during the design of reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip (SoCs). Reconfiguration is becoming an important part of System-on-Chip design to cope with the increasing demands for simultaneous flexibility and computational power.
The book focuses on system level design issues for reconfigurable SoCs, and provides information on reconfiguration aspects of complex SoCs and how they can be implemented in practice. It is divided in three parts. The first part provides background information and requirements on reconfigurable technologies and systems. The second one identifies existing methodological gaps, and introduces a design flow for developing reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip. The high level part of the design flow can be covered by two C++ based methodologies: one based on SystemC and one based on OCAPI-XL, both including appropriate extensions to handle reconfiguration issues. Finally, the third part of the book presents reconfigurable SoCs from the perspective of the designer, through three indicative case studies from the wireless and multimedia communication domain.
