Compilation and Synthesis for Embedded Reconfigurable Systems

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Pedro C. Diniz, João M. P. Cardoso, José Gabriel de F. Coutinho, Zlatko Petrov

   Pages 1-11

3. The REFLECT Design-Flow

   • João M. P. Cardoso, José Gabriel de F. Coutinho, Razvan Nane, Vlad-Mihai Sima, Bryan Olivier, Tiago Carvalho et al.

   Pages 13-34

4. The LARA Language

   • João M. P. Cardoso, José Gabriel de F. Coutinho, Tiago Carvalho, Pedro C. Diniz

   Pages 35-70

5. Aspect-Based Source to Source Transformations

   • José Gabriel de F. Coutinho, João M. P. Cardoso, Tiago Carvalho, Sujit Bhattacharya, Wayne Luk, George Constantinides et al.

   Pages 71-103

6. Hardware/Software Compilation

   • Ricardo Nobre, João M. P. Cardoso, Bryan Olivier, Razvan Nane, Liam Fitzpatrick, José Gabriel de F. Coutinho et al.

   Pages 105-134

7. LARA Experiments

   • Fernando Gonçalves, Zlatko Petrov, José Gabriel de F. Coutinho, Razvan Nane, Vlad-Mihai Sima, João M. P. Cardoso et al.

   Pages 135-179

8. Related Work

   • João M. P. Cardoso, José Gabriel de F. Coutinho, Pedro C. Diniz

   Pages 181-195

9. Conclusions

   • Pedro C. Diniz, João M. P. Cardoso, José Gabriel de F. Coutinho, Zlatko Petrov

   Pages 197-200

10. Back Matter

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This book provides techniques to tackle the design challenges raised by the increasing diversity and complexity of emerging, heterogeneous architectures for embedded systems. It describes an approach based on techniques from software engineering called aspect-oriented programming, which allow designers to control today’s sophisticated design tool chains, while maintaining a single application source code.  Readers are introduced to the basic concepts of an aspect-oriented, domain specific language that enables control of a wide range of compilation and synthesis tools in the partitioning and mapping of an application to a heterogeneous (and possibly multi-core) target architecture.  Several examples are presented that illustrate the benefits of the approach developed for applications from avionics and digital signal processing. Using the aspect-oriented programming techniques presented in this book, developers can reuse extensive sections of their designs, while preserving the original application source-code, thus promoting developer productivity as well as architecture and performance portability. Describes an aspect-oriented approach for the compilation and synthesis of applications targeting heterogeneous embedded computing architectures. Includes examples using an integrated tool chain for compilation and synthesis. Provides validation and evaluation for targeted reconfigurable heterogeneous architectures. Enables design portability, given changing target devices· Allows developers to maintain a single application source code when targeting  multiple architectures.

• Aspect-Oriented Programming
• Dynamic Reconfiguration
• Embedded Systems Design
• Hardware/Software Co-design
• Reconfigurable Computing
• Reconfigurable Embedded Systems

• Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade, Porto, Portugal

  João Manuel Paiva Cardoso

• USC Information Sciences Institute, Lisboa, Portugal

  Pedro C. Diniz

• , Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  José Gabriel de Figueiredo Coutinho

• Honeywell EOOD, Sofia, Bulgaria

  Zlatko Marinov Petrov

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