Download or read book Interfacing with C written by Jayantha Katupitiya and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-14 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to write C++ programs by interfacing a computer to a wide range of popular and fundamental real-world technologies. Unique and original approach to use the PC to do real things- not just number crunching and graphics – but writing programs to interact with the outside world. Learn C++ programming in an enjoyable and powerful way. Includes a purpose-designed circuit board

Download or read book Languages for Digital Embedded Systems written by Stephen A. Edwards and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appropriate for use as a graduate text or a professional reference, Languages for Digital Embedded Systems is the first detailed, broad survey of hardware and software description languages for embedded system design. Instead of promoting the one language that will solve all design problems (which does not and will not ever exist), this book takes the view that different problems demand different languages, and a designer who knows the spectrum of available languages has the advantage over one who is trapped using the wrong language. Languages for Digital Embedded Systems concentrates on successful, widely-used design languages, with a secondary emphasis on those with significant theoretical value. The syntax, semantics, and implementation of each language is discussed, since although hardware synthesis and software compilation technology have steadily improved, coding style still matters, and a thorough understanding of how a language is synthesized or compiled is generally necessary to take full advantage of a language. Practicing designers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates will all benefit from this book. It assumes familiarity with some hardware or software languages, but takes a practical, descriptive view that avoids formalism.

Download or read book Introduction to Algorithms third edition written by Thomas H. Cormen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 1313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest edition of the essential text and professional reference, with substantial new material on such topics as vEB trees, multithreaded algorithms, dynamic programming, and edge-based flow. Some books on algorithms are rigorous but incomplete; others cover masses of material but lack rigor. Introduction to Algorithms uniquely combines rigor and comprehensiveness. The book covers a broad range of algorithms in depth, yet makes their design and analysis accessible to all levels of readers. Each chapter is relatively self-contained and can be used as a unit of study. The algorithms are described in English and in a pseudocode designed to be readable by anyone who has done a little programming. The explanations have been kept elementary without sacrificing depth of coverage or mathematical rigor. The first edition became a widely used text in universities worldwide as well as the standard reference for professionals. The second edition featured new chapters on the role of algorithms, probabilistic analysis and randomized algorithms, and linear programming. The third edition has been revised and updated throughout. It includes two completely new chapters, on van Emde Boas trees and multithreaded algorithms, substantial additions to the chapter on recurrence (now called “Divide-and-Conquer”), and an appendix on matrices. It features improved treatment of dynamic programming and greedy algorithms and a new notion of edge-based flow in the material on flow networks. Many exercises and problems have been added for this edition. The international paperback edition is no longer available; the hardcover is available worldwide.

Download or read book The Verilog Hardware Description Language written by Donald E. Thomas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: •• XVII Acknowledgments CHAPTER 1 Verilog - A Tutorial Introduction 1 Getting Started 2 A Structural Description 2 Simulating the NAND Latch 4 Module Hleral'Chy 6 The Counter 7 Components of the Counter 9 A Clock for the System 10 Tying the Whole Circuit Together 11 Using An Alternate Description of the Flip Flop 13 Behavioral Modeling 1 S A Behavioral Model of the m16 Counter 16 Mixing Structure and Behavior 18 Assignment Statements 22 Summary on Mixing Behavioral and Structural Descriptions 23 Creating a Testbench For a Module 24 Summary 2S Tutorial Guide to Formal Syntax Specification 26 Exercises 30 CHAPTER 2 Behavioral Modeling 33 Process Model 33 If-Then-Else 3S Where Does The ELSE Belong? 39 The Conditional Operator 41 Loops 41 Four Basic Loop Statements 42 Exiting Loops on Exceptional Conditions 45 Multi-way branching 46 If-Else-If 46 Case 46 Comparison of Case and If-Else-If 48 viii The Verilog Hardware Description Language Casez and Casex 49 Functions and Tasks SO Tasks 52 Functions 55 A Structural View 57 Rules of Scope and Hierarchical Names S9 Rules of Scope 60 Hierarchical Names 62 Summary 63 Exerdses 63 CHAPTER 3 Concurrent Processes 6S Concu"ent Processes 6S Events 67 Event Control Statement 67 Named Events 69 The Walt Statement 72 A Complete Producer-Consumer Handshake 74 Comparison of the Wait and While Statements 77 Comparison of Wait and Event Control Statements 78 A Concu"ent Process Example 78 Disabling Named Blocks 84 Intra-Assignment Control and Timing Events 87 Procedural Continuous Assignment 90

Download or read book Higher Level Hardware Synthesis written by Richard Sharp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid 1960s, when a single chip contained an average of 50 transistors, Gordon Moore observed that integrated circuits were doubling in complexity every year. In an in?uential article published by Electronics Magazine in 1965, Moore predicted that this trend would continue for the next 10 years. Despite being criticized for its “unrealistic optimism,” Moore’s prediction has remained valid for far longer than even he imagined: today, chips built using state-- the-art techniques typically contain several million transistors. The advances in fabrication technology that have supported Moore’s law for four decades have fuelled the computer revolution. However,this exponential increase in transistor density poses new design challenges to engineers and computer scientists alike. New techniques for managing complexity must be developed if circuits are to take full advantage of the vast numbers of transistors available. In this monograph we investigate both (i) the design of high-level languages for hardware description, and (ii) techniques involved in translating these hi- level languages to silicon. We propose SAFL, a ?rst-order functional language designedspeci?callyforbehavioralhardwaredescription,anddescribetheimp- mentation of its associated silicon compiler. We show that the high-level pr- erties of SAFL allow one to exploit program analyses and optimizations that are not employed in existing synthesis systems. Furthermore, since SAFL fully abstracts the low-leveldetails of the implementation technology, we show how it can be compiled to a range of di?erent design styles including fully synchronous design and globally asynchronous locally synchronous (GALS) circuits.

Download or read book SystemC From the Ground Up Second Edition written by David C. Black and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SystemC provides a robust set of extensions to the C++ language that enables rapid development of complex models of hardware and software systems. The authors focus on practical use of the language for modeling real systems, showing: A step-by-step build-up of syntax Code examples for each concept Updates to reflect the SystemC standard, IEEE 1666 Why features are as they are Many resource references How SystemC fits into an ESL methodology This new edition of an industry best seller is updated to reflect the standardization of SystemC as IEEE 1666 and other improvements that reflect feedback from readers of the first edition. The wide ranging feedback also include suggestions from editors of the Japanese and Korean language translations, professors and students, and computer engineers from a broad industrial and geographical spectrum, all who have successfully used the first edition. New chapters have been added on the SystemC Verification Library and the Transaction Level Modeling, and proposed changes to the current SystemC standard. David Black and Jack Donovan, well known consultants in the EDA industry, have teamed with Bill Bunton and Anna Keist, experienced SystemC modeling engineers, to write the second edition of this highly popular classic. As a team the authors bring over 100 years of ASIC and system design experience together to make a very readable introduction to SystemC.

Download or read book Exploring C for Microcontrollers written by Jivan Parab and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike traditional embedded systems references, this book skips routine things to focus on programming microcontrollers, specifically MCS-51 family in ‘C’ using Keil IDE. The book presents seventeen case studies plus many basic programs organized around on-chip resources. This "learn-through-doing" approach appeals to busy designers. Mastering basic modules and working hands-on with the projects gives readers the basic building blocks for most 8051 programs. Whether you are a student using MCS-51 microcontrollers for project work or an embedded systems programmer, this book will kick-start your practical understanding of the most popular microcontroller, bridging the gap between microcontroller hardware experts and C programmers.

Download or read book Compiling Algorithms for Heterogeneous Systems written by Steven Bell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most emerging applications in imaging and machine learning must perform immense amounts of computation while holding to strict limits on energy and power. To meet these goals, architects are building increasingly specialized compute engines tailored for these specific tasks. The resulting computer systems are heterogeneous, containing multiple processing cores with wildly different execution models. Unfortunately, the cost of producing this specialized hardware—and the software to control it—is astronomical. Moreover, the task of porting algorithms to these heterogeneous machines typically requires that the algorithm be partitioned across the machine and rewritten for each specific architecture, which is time consuming and prone to error. Over the last several years, the authors have approached this problem using domain-specific languages (DSLs): high-level programming languages customized for specific domains, such as database manipulation, machine learning, or image processing. By giving up generality, these languages are able to provide high-level abstractions to the developer while producing high-performance output. The purpose of this book is to spur the adoption and the creation of domain-specific languages, especially for the task of creating hardware designs. In the first chapter, a short historical journey explains the forces driving computer architecture today. Chapter 2 describes the various methods for producing designs for accelerators, outlining the push for more abstraction and the tools that enable designers to work at a higher conceptual level. From there, Chapter 3 provides a brief introduction to image processing algorithms and hardware design patterns for implementing them. Chapters 4 and 5 describe and compare Darkroom and Halide, two domain-specific languages created for image processing that produce high-performance designs for both FPGAs and CPUs from the same source code, enabling rapid design cycles and quick porting of algorithms. The final section describes how the DSL approach also simplifies the problem of interfacing between application code and the accelerator by generating the driver stack in addition to the accelerator configuration. This book should serve as a useful introduction to domain-specialized computing for computer architecture students and as a primer on domain-specific languages and image processing hardware for those with more experience in the field.

Download or read book C for Electronic Engineering with Applied Software Engineering written by William Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this text is to provide a practical introduction to the C programming language through the usage of electrical/electronics examples. All the examples in the text are related to the specific discipline of electronics, and this approach will reinforce key concepts. Software Engineering is introduced by the use of practical applications, and each stage of this is analyzed and documented. Practical tutorial and project work is also included, graded in difficulty for the student to try and even incorporate into assignment work. Finally, structure charts are used throughout to enable students to hone programming skills, and test runs of most of the programs are displayed with simple test data. Key features practical/electronics programs; applied software engineering related to electronic examples; practical tutorial and project work; and example diskette available on request. The text is applicable to anyone on an electronics-related course studying programming for the first time. It will also be appropriate for any professional engineers and technicians with a background in other computer languages wanting to learn how to program in C.

Download or read book The VHDL Handbook written by David R. Coelho and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to be a working reference for electronic hardware de signers who are interested in writing VHDL models. A handbook/cookbook approach is taken, with many complete examples used to illustrate the fea tures of the VHDL language and to provide insight into how particular classes of hardware devices can be modelled in VHDL. It is possible to use these models directly or to adapt them to similar problems with minimal effort. This book is not intended to be a complete reference manual for the VHDL language. It is possible to begin writing VHDL models with little background in VHDL by copying examples from the book and adapting them to particular problems. Some exposure to the VHDL language prior to using this book is recommended. The reader is assumed to have a solid hardware design background, preferably with some simulation experience. For the reader who is interested in getting a complete overview of the VHDL language, the following publications are recommended reading: • An Introduction to VHDL: Hardware Description and Design [LIP89] • IEEE Standard VHDL Language Reference Manual [IEEE87] • Chip-Level Behavioral Modelling [ARMS88] • Multi-Level Simulation of VLSI Systems [COEL87] Other references of interest are [USG88], [DOD88] and [CLSI87] Use of the Book If the reader is familiar with VHDL, the models described in chapters 3 through 7 can be applied directly to design problems.

Download or read book Concepts of Programming Languages written by Robert W. Sebasta and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Designing Embedded Systems with the SIGNAL Programming Language written by Abdoulaye Gamatié and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am very pleased to play even a small part in the publication of this book on the SIGNAL language and its environment POLYCHRONY. I am sure it will be a s- ni?cant milestone in the development of the SIGNAL language, of synchronous computing in general, and of the data?ow approach to computation. In data?ow, the computation takes place in a producer–consumer network of - dependent processing stations. Data travels in streams and is transformed as these streams pass through the processing stations (often called ?lters). Data?ow is an attractive model for many reasons, not least because it corresponds to the way p- duction,transportation,andcommunicationare typicallyorganizedin the real world (outside cyberspace). I myself stumbled into data?ow almost against my will. In the mid-1970s, Ed Ashcroft and I set out to design a “super” structured programming language that, we hoped, would radically simplify proving assertions about programs. In the end, we decided that it had to be declarative. However, we also were determined that iterative algorithms could be expressed directly, without circumlocutions such as the use of a tail-recursive function. The language that resulted, which we named LUCID, was much less traditional then we would have liked. LUCID statements are equations in a kind of executable temporallogic thatspecifythe (time)sequencesof variablesinvolvedin aniteration.

Download or read book Embedded Systems written by Albert Kundig and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Studies in Abstract Families of Languages written by Seymour Ginsburg and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1969 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first paper introduces the notion of an abstract family of languages (AFL) and is concerned with the properties and characterizations of such families. The second is concerned with the independence of the abstract family of languages (AFL) axioms. The third is concerned with families of languages which are usually not AFL but give rise to AFL when closed under homomorphisms.

Download or read book Compiling Esterel written by Dumitru Potop-Butucaru and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-05-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as the definitive reference on the compilation of the Esterel synchronous reactive real-time language, Compiling Esterel covers all aspects of the language. The book includes a tutorial, a reference manual, formal semantics, and detailed technical information about the many techniques used to compile it. Researchers as well as advanced developers will find this book essential for understanding Esterel at all levels.

Download or read book Verilog Frequently Asked Questions written by Shivakumar S. Chonnad and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-09-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Verilog Hardware Description Language was first introduced in 1984. Over the 20 year history of Verilog, every Verilog engineer has developed his own personal “bag of tricks” for coding with Verilog. These tricks enable modeling or verifying designs more easily and more accurately. Developing this bag of tricks is often based on years of trial and error. Through experience, engineers learn that one specific coding style works best in some circumstances, while in another situation, a different coding style is best. As with any high-level language, Verilog often provides engineers several ways to accomplish a specific task. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if an engineer first learning Verilog could start with another engineer’s bag of tricks, without having to go through years of trial and error to decide which style is best for which circumstance? That is where this book becomes an invaluable resource. The book presents dozens of Verilog tricks of the trade on how to best use the Verilog HDL for modeling designs at various level of abstraction, and for writing test benches to verify designs. The book not only shows the correct ways of using Verilog for different situations, it also presents alternate styles, and discusses the pros and cons of these styles.