Application-Driven Architecture Synthesis

Application-Driven Architecture Synthesis describes the state of the art of architectural synthesis for complex real-time processing. In order to deal with the stringent timing requirements and the intricacies of complex real-time signal and data processing, target architecture styles and target application domains have been adopted to make the synthesis approach feasible. These approaches are also heavily application-driven, which is illustrated by many realistic demonstrations, used as examples in the book. The focus is on domains where application-specific solutions are attractive, such as significant parts of audio, telecom, instrumentation, speech, robotics, medical and automotive processing, image and video processing, TV, multi-media, radar, sonar. ApplicationDriven Architecture Synthesis is of interest to both academics and senior design engineers and CAD managers in industry. It provides an excellent overview of what capabilities to expect from future practical design tools, and includes an extensive bibliography.

InhaltsangabePreface. 1. Application-driven synthesis methodologies for real-time processor architectures. 2. Behavioral specification for synthesis. 3. Formal methods for solving the algebraic path problem. 4. HiFi: from parallel algorithm to fixed-size VLSI processor array. 5. On the design of two-level pipelined processor arrays. 6. Regular array synthesis for image and video applications. 7. Memory and data-path mapping for image and video applications. 8. Automatic synthesis for mechatronic applications. 9. Synthesis for control-flow-dominated machines. 10. Controller synthesis and verification. Index.