Adaptable Embedded Systems
by Luigi Carro /
2012 / English / PDF
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As embedded systems become more complex, designers face a number of
challenges at different levels: they need to boost performance,
while keeping energy consumption as low as possible, they need to
reuse existent software code, and at the same time they need to
take advantage of the extra logic available in the chip,
represented by multiple processors working together. This
book describes several strategies to achieve such different and
interrelated goals, by the use of adaptability. Coverage includes
reconfigurable systems, dynamic optimization techniques such as
binary translation and trace reuse, new memory architectures
including homogeneous and heterogeneous multiprocessor systems,
communication issues and NOCs, fault tolerance against fabrication
defects and soft errors, and finally, how one can combine several
of these techniques together to achieve higher levels of
performance and adaptability. The discussion also includes
how to employ specialized software to improve this new adaptive
system, and how this new kind of software must be designed and
programmed.
As embedded systems become more complex, designers face a number of
challenges at different levels: they need to boost performance,
while keeping energy consumption as low as possible, they need to
reuse existent software code, and at the same time they need to
take advantage of the extra logic available in the chip,
represented by multiple processors working together. This
book describes several strategies to achieve such different and
interrelated goals, by the use of adaptability. Coverage includes
reconfigurable systems, dynamic optimization techniques such as
binary translation and trace reuse, new memory architectures
including homogeneous and heterogeneous multiprocessor systems,
communication issues and NOCs, fault tolerance against fabrication
defects and soft errors, and finally, how one can combine several
of these techniques together to achieve higher levels of
performance and adaptability. The discussion also includes
how to employ specialized software to improve this new adaptive
system, and how this new kind of software must be designed and
programmed.