Jose Gabriel de Figueiredo Coutinho – författare

Embedded Computing for High Performance: Design Exploration and Customization Using High-level Compilation and Synthesis Tools provides a set of real-life example implementations that migrate traditional desktop systems to embedded systems. Working with popular hardware, including Xilinx and ARM, the book offers a comprehensive description of techniques for mapping computations expressed in programming languages such as C or MATLAB to high-performance embedded architectures consisting of multiple CPUs, GPUs, and reconfigurable hardware (FPGAs).The authors demonstrate a domain-specific language (LARA) that facilitates retargeting to multiple computing systems using the same source code. In this way, users can decouple original application code from transformed code and enhance productivity and program portability.After reading this book, engineers will understand the processes, methodologies, and best practices needed for the development of applications for high-performance embedded computing systems.- Focuses on maximizing performance while managing energy consumption in embedded systems- Explains how to retarget code for heterogeneous systems with GPUs and FPGAs- Demonstrates a domain-specific language that facilitates migrating and retargeting existing applications to modern systems- Includes downloadable slides, tools, and tutorials

This book provides techniques to tackle the design challenges raised by the increasing diversity and complexity of emerging, heterogeneous architectures for embedded systems. It describes an approach based on techniques from software engineering called aspect-oriented programming, which allow designers to control today’s sophisticated design tool chains, while maintaining a single application source code.  Readers are introduced to the basic concepts of an aspect-oriented, domain specific language that enables control of a wide range of compilation and synthesis tools in the partitioning and mapping of an application to a heterogeneous (and possibly multi-core) target architecture.  Several examples are presented that illustrate the benefits of the approach developed for applications from avionics and digital signal processing. Using the aspect-oriented programming techniques presented in this book, developers can reuse extensive sections of their designs, while preserving the original application source-code, thus promoting developer productivity as well as architecture and performance portability.Describes an aspect-oriented approach for the compilation and synthesis of applications targeting heterogeneous embedded computing architectures.Includes examples using an integrated tool chain for compilation and synthesis.Provides validation and evaluation for targeted reconfigurable heterogeneous architectures.Enables design portability, given changing target devices·Allows developers to maintain a single application source code when targeting  multiple architectures.

This book provides techniques to tackle the design challenges raised by the increasing diversity and complexity of emerging, heterogeneous architectures for embedded systems. It describes an approach based on techniques from software engineering called aspect-oriented programming, which allow designers to control today’s sophisticated design tool chains, while maintaining a single application source code.  Readers are introduced to the basic concepts of an aspect-oriented, domain specific language that enables control of a wide range of compilation and synthesis tools in the partitioning and mapping of an application to a heterogeneous (and possibly multi-core) target architecture.  Several examples are presented that illustrate the benefits of the approach developed for applications from avionics and digital signal processing. Using the aspect-oriented programming techniques presented in this book, developers can reuse extensive sections of their designs, while preserving the original application source-code, thus promoting developer productivity as well as architecture and performance portability.Describes an aspect-oriented approach for the compilation and synthesis of applications targeting heterogeneous embedded computing architectures.Includes examples using an integrated tool chain for compilation and synthesis.Provides validation and evaluation for targeted reconfigurable heterogeneous architectures.Enables design portability, given changing target devices·Allows developers to maintain a single application source code when targeting  multiple architectures.

This book provides techniques to tackle the design challenges raised by the increasing diversity and complexity of emerging, heterogeneous architectures for embedded systems. It describes an approach based on techniques from software engineering called aspect-oriented programming, which allow designers to control today’s sophisticated design tool chains, while maintaining a single application source code.  Readers are introduced to the basic concepts of an aspect-oriented, domain specific language that enables control of a wide range of compilation and synthesis tools in the partitioning and mapping of an application to a heterogeneous (and possibly multi-core) target architecture.  Several examples are presented that illustrate the benefits of the approach developed for applications from avionics and digital signal processing. Using the aspect-oriented programming techniques presented in this book, developers can reuse extensive sections of their designs, while preserving the original application source-code, thus promoting developer productivity as well as architecture and performance portability.Describes an aspect-oriented approach for the compilation and synthesis of applications targeting heterogeneous embedded computing architectures.Includes examples using an integrated tool chain for compilation and synthesis.Provides validation and evaluation for targeted reconfigurable heterogeneous architectures.Enables design portability, given changing target devices·Allows developers to maintain a single application source code when targeting  multiple architectures.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Applications, ARC 2013, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in March 2013. The 28 revised papers presented, consisting of 20 full papers and 11 poster papers were carefully selected from 41 submissions. The topics covered are applications, arithmetic, design optimization for FPGAs, architectures, place and routing.