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A Practical Introduction to Hardware/Software Codesign

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  • © 2010

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Authors:
  1. Patrick R. Schaumont

    1. Bradley Dept. Electrical &, Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA

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  • Presents the field of hardware/software codesign in four parts Basic Concepts, Custom Architecture, Hardware/Software Interfaces, and Applications
  • Includes problems at the end of each chapter as well as a bibliography and further reading suggestions
  • Utilizes a simple hardware description language called GEZEL
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Basic Concepts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Nature of Hardware and Software

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      Pages 3-31

    3. Data Flow Modeling and Implementation

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      Pages 33-69

    4. Analysis of Control Flow and Data Flow

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      Pages 71-91

  3. The Design Space of Custom Architectures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Finite State Machine with Datapath

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      Pages 95-132

    3. Microprogrammed Architectures

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      Pages 133-163

    4. General-Purpose Embedded Cores

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      Pages 165-203

    5. System On Chip

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      Pages 205-227

  4. Hardware/Software Interfaces

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229
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    2. On-Chip Busses

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      Pages 231-257

    3. Hardware/Software Interfaces

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      Pages 259-301

    4. Coprocessor Control Shell Design

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      Pages 303-334

  5. Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 335-335
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    2. Trivium Crypto-Coprocessor

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      Pages 337-368

    3. CORDIC Coprocessor

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      Pages 369-388

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 389-396
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About this book

This is a practical book for computer engineers who want to understand or implement hardware/software systems. It focuses on problems that require one to combine hardware design with software design – such problems can be solved with hardware/software codesign. When used properly, hardware/software co- sign works better than hardware design or software design alone: it can improve the overall performance of digital systems, and it can shorten their design time. Hardware/software codesign can help a designer to make trade-offs between the ?exibility and the performanceof a digital system. To achieve this, a designer needs to combine two radically different ways of design: the sequential way of dec- position in time, using software, with the parallel way of decomposition in space, using hardware. Intended Audience This book assumes that you have a basic understandingof hardware that you are - miliar with standard digital hardware componentssuch as registers, logic gates, and components such as multiplexers and arithmetic operators. The book also assumes that you know how to write a program in C. These topics are usually covered in an introductory course on computer engineering or in a combination of courses on digital design and software engineering.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Bradley Dept. Electrical &, Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA

    Patrick R. Schaumont

About the author

Patrick Schaumont is Assistant Professor in Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from UCLA (2004), and the MS degree in Computer Science from Rijksuniversiteit Ghent, Belgium (1990). He has been a researcher at the Inter-university Micro- Electronics Center (IMEC) in Belgium from 1992 to 2001. He has served on the program committee of international conferences in this field such as CHES, DATE, DAC, IEEE HOST and IEEE MEMOCODE.

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