Advanced Techniques for Embedded Systems Design and Test

✍ Scribed by Eugenio Villar, Maite Veiga (auth.), Juan Carlos López, Román Hermida, Walter Geisselhardt (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 297
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As electronic technology reaches the point where complex systems can be integrated on a single chip, and higher degrees of performance can be achieved at lower costs, designers must devise new ways to undertake the laborious task of coping with the numerous, and non-trivial, problems that arise during the conception of such systems. On the other hand, shorter design cycles (so that electronic products can fit into shrinking market windows) put companies, and consequently designers, under pressure in a race to obtain reliable products in the minimum period of time. New methodologies, supported by automation and abstraction, have appeared which have been crucial in making it possible for system designers to take over the traditional electronic design process and embedded systems is one of the fields that these methodologies are mainly targeting. The inherent complexity of these systems, with hardware and software components that usually execute concurrently, and the very tight cost and performance constraints, make them specially suitable to introduce higher levels of abstraction and automation, so as to allow the designer to better tackle the many problems that appear during their design.
Advanced Techniques for Embedded Systems Design and Test is a comprehensive book presenting recent developments in methodologies and tools for the specification, synthesis, verification, and test of embedded systems, characterized by the use of high-level languages as a road to productivity. Each specific part of the design process, from specification through to test, is looked at with a constant emphasis on behavioral methodologies.
Advanced Techniques for Embedded Systems Design and Test is essential reading for all researchers in the design and test communities as well as system designers and CAD tools developers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Embedded System Specification....Pages 1-30
Supporting Early System-Level Design Space Exploration in the Deep Submicron Era....Pages 31-52
Knowledge Based Hardware-Software Partitioning of Electronic Systems....Pages 53-76
An Industrial Case Study in HW-SW Co-Design Using Castle....Pages 77-101
Automatic Formal Derivation Applied to High-Level Synthesis....Pages 103-123
Overlapped Scheduling Techniques for High-Level Synthesis and Multiprocessor Realizations of DSP Algorithms....Pages 125-150
Synthesis of Reconfigurable Control Devices Based on Object-Oriented Specifications....Pages 151-177
Estimation of Circuit Physical Features in High-Level Synthesis Based on Standard Cells....Pages 179-199
Test Synthesis of Digital Systems....Pages 201-230
Advances in ATPG by Exploiting the Behavioral View....Pages 231-259
Behavioral Fault Simulation....Pages 261-284
Back Matter....Pages 285-290

✦ Subjects

Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design; Electrical Engineering