Vahid, Frank <br/><br/>
Embedded system design :  a unified hardware/software introduction 
Frank Vahid; Tony Givargis 
 - Hoboken, N.J. :  Wiley,  c2002. 
 - xxi, 324 p. :  ill ;  25 cm. 
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<br/><br/>Design Challenge--Optimizing Design Metrics --  Common Design Metrics --  The Time-to-Market Design Metric --  The NRE and Unit Cost Design Metrics --  The Performance Design Metric --  Processor Technology --  General-Purpose Processors--Software --  Single-Purpose Processors--Hardware --  Application-Specific Processors --  IC Technology --  Full-Custom/VLSI --  Semicustom ASIC (Gate Array and Standard Cell) --  PLD --  Trends --  Design Technology --  Compilation/Synthesis --  Libraries/IP --  Test/Verification --  More Productivity Improvers --  Trends --  Trade-offs --  Design Productivity Gap --  Custom Single-Purpose Processors: Hardware --  Combinational Logic --  Transistors and Logic Gates --  Basic Combinational Logic Design --  RT-Level Combinational Components --  Sequential Logic --  Flip-Flops --  RT-Level Sequential Components --  Sequential Logic Design --  Custom Single-Purpose Processor Design --  RT-Level Custom Single-Purpose Processor Design --  Optimizing Custom Single-Purpose Processors --  Optimizing the Original Program --  Optimizing the FSMD --  Optimizing the Datapath --  Optimizing the FSM --  General-Purpose Processors: Software --  Basic Architecture --  Datapath --  Control Unit --  Memory --  Operation --  Instruction Execution --  Pipelining --  Superscalar and VLIW Architectures --  Programmer's View --  Instruction Set --  Program and Data Memory Space --  Registers --  I/O --  Interrupts --  Example: Assembly-Language Programming of Device Drivers --  Operating System --  Development Environment --  Design Flow and Tools. 
<br/><br/> This book introduces a modern approach to embedded system design, presenting software design and hardware design in a unified manner. It covers trends and challenges, introduces the design and use of single-purpose processors ("hardware") and general-purpose processors ("software"), describes memories and buses, illustrates hardware/software tradeoffs using a digital camera example, and discusses advanced computation models, controls systems, chip technologies, and modern design tools. For courses found in EE, CS and other engineering departments. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978-0471386780 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2001046620 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Embedded computer systems<br/>Design Metrics<br/>IC Technology<br/>Design Flow
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>005.2/56