Foreword. Preface.- 1. INTRODUCTION. 1.1 Organization of the Book Chapters. - 2. EMBEDDED SOC APPLICATIONS. 2.1 Networking Domain. 2.2 Multimedia Domain. 2.3 Wireless Communications. 2.4 Application Trends. 2.5 First Order Application Partitioning.- 3. CLASSIFICATION OF PLATFORM ELEMENTS. 3.1 Architecture Metrics. 3.2 Processing Elements. 3.3 On-Chip Communication. 3.4 Summary.- 4. SYSTEM LEVEL DESIGN PRINCIPLES. 4.1 The Platform Based Design Paradigm. 4.2 Design Phases. 4.3 Abstraction Mechanisms. 4.4 Models of Computation. 4.5 Object versus Actor Oriented Design. 4.6 System Level Design Requirements.- 5. RELATED WORK. 5.1 Traditional HW/SW Co-Design. 5.2 SystemC based Transaction Level Modeling. 5.3 Current Research on MP-SoC Design Methodologies. 5.4 Summary.- 6. METHODOLOGY OVERVIEW. 6.1 Application Modeling. 6.2 Architecture Modeling. 6.3 Envisioned Design Flow. 6.4 MP-SoC Simulation Framework.- 7. UNIFIED TIMING MODEL. 7.1 Tagged Signal Model Introduction. 7.2 Reactive Process Network. 7.3 Architecture Model. 7.4 Performance Metrics. 7.5 Summary.- 8. MP-SOC SIMULATION FRAMEWORK. 8.1 The Generic Synchronization Protocol. 8.2 Generic VPU Model. 8.3 NoC Framework. 8.4 Tool Support. 8.5 Summary.- 9. CASE STUDY. 9.1 IPv4 Forwarding with QoS Support. 9.2 Intel IXP2400 Reference NPU. 9.3 Custom IPv4 Platform. 9.4 Simulation Results.- 10. SUMMARY. - Appendices. A The OSCI TLM Standard. B The OCPIP TL3 Channel. C The Architects View Framework.- List of Figures. List of Tables. References. Index.
EAN/ISBN : 9781402048265
Publisher(s): Springer Netherlands
Discussed keywords: Multiprozessor, Netzwerke
Format: ePub/PDF

Author(s): Kogel, Tim - Leupers, Rainer - Meyr, Heinrich