A Practical Introduction to Hardware/Software Codesign

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 A Practical Introduction to Hardware/Software Codesign addresses the problem of combining software and hardware in a single system design process – such problems can be solved with hardware/software codesign. When used properly, hardware/software codesign improves the overall performance of digital systems, and it can shorten design time. The book covers four topics in hardware/software codesign: fundamentals, the design space of custom architectures, the hardware/software interface and application examples. The book comes with an associated design environment that helps the reader to perform experiments in hardware/software codesign. Each chapter also comes with exercises and further reading suggestions. A Practical Introduction to Hardware/Software Codesign is a great resource for engineers and students. 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 c...