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The In-System Configuration Handbook:

A Designer’s Guide to ISC

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  • © 2004

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Authors:
  1. Neil G. Jacobson

    1. Xilinx, USA

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  • Provides design considerations and rules-of-thumb to ensure the functionality you want will work
  • Brings together, in a single volume, the information needed by systems designers to develop applications that include configurability

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. A Brief History of In-System Configuration

    • Neil G. Jacobson
    Pages 1-13

  3. Configurable Device Architectures

    • Neil G. Jacobson
    Pages 14-31

  4. In-System Configuration Technologies

    • Neil G. Jacobson
    Pages 32-47

  5. Configuration Description and Specification Languages

    • Neil G. Jacobson
    Pages 48-52

  6. Configuration Description and Specification Languages

    • Neil G. Jacobson
    Pages 53-65

  7. Configuration Description and Specification Languages

    • Neil G. Jacobson
    Pages 66-98

  8. Configuration Specification and Description Languages

    • Neil G. Jacobson
    Pages 100-136

  9. The IEEE STD 1532 Compliant Device

    • Neil G. Jacobson
    Pages 138-147

  10. Design Considerations for In-System Configurable Systems

    • Neil G. Jacobson
    Pages 148-166

  11. In-System Configuration-Based Platforms

    • Neil G. Jacobson
    Pages 168-178

  12. Designing In-System Configurable Applications

    • Neil G. Jacobson
    Pages 180-193

  13. Conclusion

    • Neil G. Jacobson
    Pages 195-195

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 196-201
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Programmable logic radically changed the electronic system design landscape. It reduced board space needed for random logic, state machines and system interfaces. It allowed faster design cycles, made easy late term bug fixes and gave designers greater freedom to experiment and prototype. In-system programming of these devices has had a similar revolutionary effect. The ability to change the programmed content of programmable logic while it is on the board is equivalent to being able to redesign all the hardware -without changing a single component. This allows the possibility of providing field upgrades of your product to fix problems or to introduce new functionality. It allows designing in reconfiguration as an essential function of your system with different capabilities swapped in as needed during run-time. Further it allows storage of different product profiles for retrieval as necessary to allow just-in-time configuration of systems to meet market needs. Recent developments in programmable logic have helped in making realizing reconfigurable systems more streamlined. The most significant development, though, was the introduction, approval and popularization of IEEE STD 1532, the IEEE Standard for In-System Configuration of Programmable Devices. The purpose of this text is to bring together, in a single volume, the information needed by systems designers to develop applications that include configurability. This covers the entire range of systems from the The In-System Configuration Handbook simplest implementations that merely include configurable logic to realize system functions to the most complicated that include reconfigurability as part of the application itself.

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  • Xilinx, USA

    Neil G. Jacobson

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