TY - BOOK AU - Voros,Nikolaos S. AU - Masselos,Konstantinos ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - System Level Design of Reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip SN - 9780387261041 U1 - 621.3815 23 PY - 2005/// CY - Boston, MA PB - Springer US KW - ENGINEERING KW - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING KW - COMPUTER SCIENCE KW - ELECTRONICS KW - SYSTEMS ENGINEERING KW - CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS KW - ELECTRONIC AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING KW - ELECTRONICS AND MICROELECTRONICS, INSTRUMENTATION KW - PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES, COMPILERS, INTERPRETERS KW - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING/PROGRAMMING AND OPERATING SYSTEMS KW - SPECIAL PURPOSE AND APPLICATION-BASED SYSTEMS N1 - to Reconfigurable Hardware -- Reconfigurable Hardware Exploitation in Wireless Multimedia Communications -- Reconfigurable Hardware Technologies -- Design Flow for Reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip -- SystemC Based Approach -- OCAPI-XL Based Approach -- MPEG-4 Video Decoder -- Prototyping of a HIPERLAN/2 Reconfigurable System-on-Chip -- WCDMA Detector N2 - System Level Design of Reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip provides insight in the challenges and difficulties encountered during the design of reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip (SoCs). Reconfiguration is becoming an important part of System-on-Chip design to cope with the increasing demands for simultaneous flexibility and computational power. The book focuses on system level design issues for reconfigurable SoCs, and provides information on reconfiguration aspects of complex SoCs and how they can be implemented in practice. It is divided in three parts. The first part provides background information and requirements on reconfigurable technologies and systems. The second one identifies existing methodological gaps, and introduces a design flow for developing reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip. The high level part of the design flow can be covered by two C++ based methodologies: one based on SystemC and one based on OCAPI-XL, both including appropriate extensions to handle reconfiguration issues. Finally, the third part of the book presents reconfigurable SoCs from the perspective of the designer, through three indicative case studies from the wireless and multimedia communication domain UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b136832 ER -