Complex SoC Design (English Version)

Author: (USA) Ron
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book provides unified hardware/software design guidance for processor-centric SoC design for the first time, serving as a comprehensive, example-driven guide that helps readers create design projects using configurable and scalable processors. The book systematically clarifies the issues, opportunities, and challenges of processor-centric design using Tensilica's Xtensa architecture and TIE language. Ron introduces a new design methodology and then covers its fundamental techniques: processor configuration, extension, hardware/software co-generation, multi-processor partitioning/communication, etc. The book also includes:
● Why scalable processors are necessary: What are the shortcomings of current design methods.
● Comparing scalable processor structures with traditional processors and hardwired logic circuits.
● Coordination of latency, throughput, parallelism, hardware interconnect selection, and management of design complexity.
● Multi-processor SoC structures for embedded systems.
● Task design from the perspectives of software and hardware developers.
● Advanced techniques: Implementing complex state machines, task-to-task synchronization, power optimization, etc.