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Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > Knowledge-based systems / expert systems

Global Specification and Validation of Embedded Systems - Integrating Heterogeneous Components (Paperback, Softcover reprint of... Global Specification and Validation of Embedded Systems - Integrating Heterogeneous Components (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007)
G. Nicolescu, Ahmed A Jerraya
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers up a deep understanding of concepts and practices behind the composition of heterogeneous components. After the analysis of existing computation and execution models used for the specification and validation of different sub-systems, the book introduces a systematic approach to build an execution model for systems composed of heterogeneous components. Mixed continuous/discrete and hardware/software systems are used to illustrate these concepts. The benefit of reading this book is to arrive at a clear vision of the theory and practice of specification and validation of complex modern systems. Numerous examples give designers highly applicable solutions.

Language-driven Exploration and Implementation of Partially Re-configurable ASIPs (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover... Language-driven Exploration and Implementation of Partially Re-configurable ASIPs (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
Anupam Chattopadhyay, Rainer Leupers, Heinrich Meyr, Gerd Ascheid
R4,348 Discovery Miles 43 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Increasing complexity of modern embedded systems demands system designers to ramp up their design productivity without compromising performance goals. This is promoted by modern Electronic System Level (ESL) techniques. Language-driven Exploration and Implementation of Partially Re-configurable ASIPs addresses an important segment of the ESL area by modeling partially re-configurable processors via high-level Architecture Description Language (ADL). This approach also hints an imminent evolution in the area of re-configurable system design.

Knowledge Emergence - Social, Technical and Evolutionary Dimensions of Knowledge Creation (Hardcover): Ikujiro Nonaka,... Knowledge Emergence - Social, Technical and Evolutionary Dimensions of Knowledge Creation (Hardcover)
Ikujiro Nonaka, Toshihiro Nishiguchi
R2,522 Discovery Miles 25 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book brings together the research of a number of researchers in the field of knoledge ceation and imparts a sense of order to that field.

Mobile Information Systems - Infrastructure and Design for Adaptivity and Flexibility (Paperback, Softcover reprint of... Mobile Information Systems - Infrastructure and Design for Adaptivity and Flexibility (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006)
Barbara Pernici
R2,896 Discovery Miles 28 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a framework for mobile information systems, focusing on quality of service and adaptability at all architectural levels. These levels range from adaptive applications to e-services, middleware, and infrastructural elements, as developed in the "Multichannel Adaptive Information Systems" (MAIS) project. The design models, methods, and tools developed in the project allow the realization of adaptive mobile information systems in a variety of different architectures.

Artificial Life Models in Hardware (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009): Andrew Adamatzky, Maciej Komosinski Artificial Life Models in Hardware (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
Andrew Adamatzky, Maciej Komosinski
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Hopping, climbing and swimming robots, nano-size neural networks, motorless walkers, slime mould and chemical brains - "Artificial Life Models in Hardware" offers unique designs and prototypes of life-like creatures in conventional hardware and hybrid bio-silicon systems. Ideas and implementations of living phenomena in non-living substrates cast a colourful picture of state-of-art advances in hardware models of artificial life.

Network Performance Analysis - Using the J Programming Language (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008): Alan... Network Performance Analysis - Using the J Programming Language (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008)
Alan Holt
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book brings Network Calculus closer to the network professional and will also have real appeal for postgraduates studying network performance. It provides valuable analytical tools and uses J as a means of providing a practical treatment of the subject. It builds a bridge between mathematics theory and the practical use of computers in the field of network performance analysis.

Embedded Security in Cars - Securing Current and Future Automotive IT Applications (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover... Embedded Security in Cars - Securing Current and Future Automotive IT Applications (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006)
Kerstin Lemke, Christof Paar, Marko Wolf
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Most innovations in the car industry are based on software and electronics, and IT will soon constitute the major production cost factor. It seems almost certain that embedded IT security will be crucial for the next generation of applications. Yet whereas software safety has become a relatively well-established field, the protection of automotive IT systems against manipulation or intrusion has only recently started to emerge.

Lemke, Paar, and Wolf collect in this volume a state-of-the-art overview on all aspects relevant for IT security in automotive applications. After an introductory chapter written by the editors themselves, the contributions from experienced experts of different disciplines are structured into three parts. "Security in the Automotive Domain" describes applications for which IT security is crucial, like immobilizers, tachographs, and software updates. "Embedded Security Technologies" details security technologies relevant for automotive applications, e.g., symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, and wireless security. "Business Aspects of IT Systems in Cars" shows the need for embedded security in novel applications like location-based navigation systems and personalization.

The first book in this area of fast-growing economic and scientific importance, it is indispensable for both researchers in software or embedded security and professionals in the automotive industry.

Pervasive Healthcare Computing - EMR/EHR, Wireless and Health Monitoring (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed.... Pervasive Healthcare Computing - EMR/EHR, Wireless and Health Monitoring (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
Upkar Varshney
R2,874 Discovery Miles 28 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Pervasive healthcare is the conceptual system of providing healthcare to anyone, at anytime, and anywhere by removing restraints of time and location while increasing both the coverage and the quality of healthcare. Pervasive Healthcare Computing is at the forefront of this research, and presents the ways in which mobile and wireless technologies can be used to implement the vision of pervasive healthcare.

This vision includes prevention, healthcare maintenance and checkups; short-term monitoring (home healthcare), long-term monitoring (nursing home), and personalized healthcare monitoring; and incidence detection and management, emergency intervention, transportation and treatment. The pervasive healthcare applications include intelligent emergency management system, pervasive healthcare data access, and ubiquitous mobile telemedicine.

Pervasive Healthcare Computing includes the treatment of several new wireless technologies and the ways in which they will implement the vision of pervasive healthcare.

Processor Design - System-On-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007): Jari... Processor Design - System-On-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007)
Jari Nurmi
R4,422 Discovery Miles 44 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Here is an extremely useful book that provides insight into a number of different flavors of processor architectures and their design, software tool generation, implementation, and verification. After a brief introduction to processor architectures and how processor designers have sometimes failed to deliver what was expected, the authors introduce a generic flow for embedded on-chip processor design and start to explore the vast design space of on-chip processing. The authors cover a number of different types of processor core.

Autonomous Systems - Self-Organization, Management, and Control - Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop held at... Autonomous Systems - Self-Organization, Management, and Control - Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop held at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, October 6-7, 2008 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008)
Bernd Mahr, Huanye Sheng
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The 2008 TUB-SJTU joint workshop on Autonomous Systems Self-Organization, Management, and Control was held on October 6, 2008 at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. The workshop, sponsored by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Technical University of Berlin brought together scientists and researchers from both universities to present and discuss the latest progress on autonomous systems and its applications in diverse areas. Autonomous systems are designed to integrate machines, computing, sensing, and software to create intelligent systems capable of interacting with the complexities of the real world. Autonomous systems represent the physical embodiment of machine intelligence.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to theory and modeling for autonomous systems; organization of autonomous systems; learning and perception; complex systems; multi-agent systems; robotics and control; applications of autonomous systems.

Access Control Systems - Security, Identity Management and Trust Models (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed.... Access Control Systems - Security, Identity Management and Trust Models (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006)
Messaoud Benantar
R3,341 Discovery Miles 33 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This essential resource for professionals and advanced students in security programming and system design introduces the foundations of programming systems security and the theory behind access control models, and addresses emerging access control mechanisms.

Languages for Embedded Systems and their Applications - Selected Contributions on Specification, Design, and Verification from... Languages for Embedded Systems and their Applications - Selected Contributions on Specification, Design, and Verification from FDL'08 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
Martin Radetzki
R4,362 Discovery Miles 43 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Embedded systems take over complex control and data processing tasks in diverse application ?elds such as automotive, avionics, consumer products, and telec- munications. They are the primary driver for improving overall system safety, ef?ciency, and comfort. The demand for further improvement in these aspects can only be satis?ed by designing embedded systems of increasing complexity, which in turn necessitates the development of new system design methodologies based on speci?cation, design, and veri?cation languages. The objective of the book at hand is to provide researchers and designers with an overview of current research trends, results, and application experiences in c- puter languages for embedded systems. The book builds upon the most relevant contributions to the 2008 conference Forum on Design Languages (FDL), the p- mier international conference specializing in this ?eld. These contributions have been selected based on the results of reviews provided by leading experts from - search and industry. In many cases, the authors have improved their original work by adding breadth, depth, or explanation.

Applications of Intelligent Control to Engineering Systems - In Honour of Dr. G. J. Vachtsevanos (Paperback, Softcover reprint... Applications of Intelligent Control to Engineering Systems - In Honour of Dr. G. J. Vachtsevanos (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
Kimon P. Valavanis
R4,392 Discovery Miles 43 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Thiseditedbookispublishedin honorofDr. GeorgeJ. Vachtsevanos, ourDr. V, c- rently Professor Emeritus, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, on the occasion of his 70th birthday and for his more than 30 years of contribution to the discipline of Intelligent Control and its application to a wide spectrum of engineering and bioengineering systems. The book is nothing but a very small token of appreciation from Dr. V's former graduate students, his peers and colleagues in the profession - and not only - to the Scientist, the Engineer, the Professor, the mentor, but most important of all, to the friend and human being. All those who have met Dr. V over the years and haveinteractedwith himin someprofessionaland/orsocial capacityunderstandthis statement: Georgenevermadeanybodyfeelinferiortohim, hehelpedandsupported everybody, and he was there when anybody needed him I was not Dr. V's student. I rst met him and his wife Athena more than 26 years ago during one of their visits to RPI, in the house of my late advisor, Dr. George N. Saridis. Since then, I have been very fortunate to have had and continue to have interactions with him. It is not an exaggeration if I say that we all learned a lot from him.

Ingredients for Successful System Level Design Methodology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008): Hiren D.... Ingredients for Successful System Level Design Methodology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008)
Hiren D. Patel, Sandeep Kumar Shukla
R2,852 Discovery Miles 28 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

ESL or "Electronic System Level" is a buzz word these days, in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry, in design houses, and in the academia. Even though numerous trade magazine articles have been written, quite a few books have been published that have attempted to de?ne ESL, it is still not clear what exactly it entails. However, what seems clear to every one is that the "Register Transfer Level" (RTL) languages are not adequate any more to be the design entry point for today's and tomorrow's complex electronic system design. There are multiple reasons for such thoughts. First, the c- tinued progression of the miniaturization of the silicon technology has led to the ability of putting almost a billion transistors on a single chip. Second, applications are becoming more and more complex, and integrated with c- munication, control, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, and hence the need for ever faster, ever more reliable, and more robust electronic systems is pu- ing designers towards a productivity demand that is not sustainable without a fundamental change in the design methodologies. Also, the hardware and software functionalities are getting interchangeable and ability to model and design both in the same manner is gaining importance. Given this context, we assume that any methodology that allows us to model an entire electronic system from a system perspective, rather than just hardware with discrete-event or cycle based semantics is an ESL method- ogy of some kind.

Unleash the System On Chip using FPGAs and Handel C (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009): Rajanish K.... Unleash the System On Chip using FPGAs and Handel C (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
Rajanish K. Kamat, Santosh A. Shinde, Vinod G. Shelake
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With the rapid advances in technology, the conventional academic and research departments of Electronics engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Instrumentation Engineering over the globe are forced to come together and update their curriculum with few common interdisciplinary courses in order to come out with the engineers and researchers with muli-dimensional capabilities. The gr- ing perception of the 'Hardware becoming Soft' and 'Software becoming Hard' with the emergence of the FPGAs has made its impact on both the hardware and software professionals to change their mindset of working in narrow domains. An interdisciplinary field where 'Hardware meets the Software' for undertaking se- ingly unfeasible tasks is System on Chip (SoC) which has become the basic pl- form of modern electronic appliances. If it wasn't for SoCs, we wouldn't be driving our car with foresight of the traffic congestion before hand using GPS. Without the omnipresence of the SoCs in our every walks of life, the society is wouldn't have evidenced the rich benefits of the convergence of the technologies such as audio, video, mobile, IPTV just to name a few. The growing expectations of the consumers have placed the field of SoC design at the heart of at variance trends. On one hand there are challenges owing to design complexities with the emergence of the new processors, RTOS, software protocol stacks, buses, while the brutal forces of deep submicron effects such as crosstalk, electromigration, timing closures are challe- ing the design metrics.

Human Interaction with Machines - Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop held at the Shanghai JiaoTong University, March... Human Interaction with Machines - Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop held at the Shanghai JiaoTong University, March 15-16, 2005 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006)
G. Hommel, Sheng Huanye
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The International Workshop on "Human Interaction with Machines" is the sixth in a successful series of workshops that were established by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Technische Universitat Berlin. The goal of those workshops is to bring together researchers from both universities in order to present research results to an international community. The series of workshops started in 1990 with the International Workshop on "Artificial Intelligence" and was continued with the International Workshop on "Advanced Software Technology" in 1994. Both workshops have been hosted by Shanghai Jiaotong University. In 1998 the third wo- shop took place in Berlin. This International Workshop on "Communi- tion Based Systems" was essentially based on results from the Graduiertenkolleg on Communication Based Systems that was funded by the German Research Society (DFG) from 1991 to 2000. The fourth Int- national Workshop on "Robotics and its Applications" was held in Sha- hai in 2000. The fifth International Workshop on "The Internet Challenge: Technology and Applications" was hosted by TU Berlin in 2002."

Design of Dependable Computing Systems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002): J. C. Geffroy, G. Motet Design of Dependable Computing Systems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)
J. C. Geffroy, G. Motet
R1,639 Discovery Miles 16 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book analyzes the causes of failures in computing systems, their consequences, as weIl as the existing solutions to manage them. The domain is tackled in a progressive and educational manner with two objectives: 1. The mastering of the basics of dependability domain at system level, that is to say independently ofthe technology used (hardware or software) and of the domain of application. 2. The understanding of the fundamental techniques available to prevent, to remove, to tolerate, and to forecast faults in hardware and software technologies. The first objective leads to the presentation of the general problem, the fault models and degradation mechanisms wh ich are at the origin of the failures, and finally the methods and techniques which permit the faults to be prevented, removed or tolerated. This study concerns logical systems in general, independently of the hardware and software technologies put in place. This knowledge is indispensable for two reasons: * A large part of a product' s development is independent of the technological means (expression of requirements, specification and most of the design stage). Very often, the development team does not possess this basic knowledge; hence, the dependability requirements are considered uniquely during the technological implementation. Such an approach is expensive and inefficient. Indeed, the removal of a preliminary design fault can be very difficult (if possible) if this fault is detected during the product's final testing.

Virtual and Mixed Reality - New Trends, Part I - International Conference, Virtual and Mixed Reality 2011, Held as Part of HCI... Virtual and Mixed Reality - New Trends, Part I - International Conference, Virtual and Mixed Reality 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part I (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Randall Shumaker
R1,560 Discovery Miles 15 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The two-volume set LNCS 6773-6774 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Virtual and Mixed Reality 2011, held as Part of HCI International 2011, in Orlando, FL, USA, in July 2011, jointly with 10 other conferences addressing the latest research and development efforts and highlighting the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The 43 revised papers included in the first volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: augmented reality applications; virtual and immersive environments; novel interaction devices and techniques in VR; human physiology and behavior in VR environments.

Euro-Par 2009, Parallel Processing - Workshops - HPPC, HeteroPar, PROPER, ROIA, UNICORE, VHPC, Delft, The Netherlands, August... Euro-Par 2009, Parallel Processing - Workshops - HPPC, HeteroPar, PROPER, ROIA, UNICORE, VHPC, Delft, The Netherlands, August 25-28, 2009, Workshops (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
Hai-Xiang Lin, Michael Alexander, Martti Forsell, Andreas Knupfer, Radu Prodan, …
R1,579 Discovery Miles 15 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the p- motion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. th Euro-Par 2009 was the 15 edition in this conference series. Througout the years, the Euro-Par conferences have always attracted high-quality submissions and have become one of the established conferences in the area of parallel and distributed processing. Built upon the success of the annual conferences and in order to accommodate the needs of special interest groups (among the conf- ence participants), starting from 2006, a series of workshopsin conjunction with the Euro-Par main conference have been organized. This was the ?fth year in which workshops were organized within the Euro-Par conference format. The workshops focus on advanced specialized topics in parallel and d- tributed computing. These topics re?ect new scienti?c and technological dev- opments. While the community for such new and speci?c developments is still small and the topics have yet to become mature, the Euro-Par conference o?ers a platform in the form of a workshop to exchange ideas and discuss cooperation opportunities. The workshops in the past four years have been very successful. The number ofworkshopproposalsandthenumberof?nallyacceptedworkshopshavegra- ally increasedsince 2006.In 2008, nine workshopswereorganizedin conjunction with the main Euro-Par conference. In 2009, there were again nine workshop

Networks on Chip (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003): Axel Jantsch, Hannu Tenhunen Networks on Chip (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003)
Axel Jantsch, Hannu Tenhunen
R4,578 Discovery Miles 45 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Networks on Chip presents a variety of topics, problems and approaches with the common theme to systematically organize the on-chip communication in the form of a regular, shared communication network on chip, an NoC for short.

As the number of processor cores and IP blocks integrated on a single chip is steadily growing, a systematic approach to design the communication infrastructure becomes necessary. Different variants of packed switched on-chip networks have been proposed by several groups during the past two years. This book summarizes the state of the art of these efforts and discusses the major issues from the physical integration to architecture to operating systems and application interfaces. It also provides a guideline and vision about the direction this field is moving to. Moreover, the book outlines the consequences of adopting design platforms based on packet switched network. The consequences may in fact be far reaching because many of the topics of distributed systems, distributed real-time systems, fault tolerant systems, parallel computer architecture, parallel programming as well as traditional system-on-chip issues will appear relevant but within the constraints of a single chip VLSI implementation.

The book is organized in three parts. The first deals with system design and methodology issues. The second presents problems and solutions concerning the hardware and the basic communication infrastructure. Finally, the third part covers operating system, embedded software and application. However, communication from the physical to the application level is a central theme throughout the book.

The book serves as an excellent reference source and may be used as a text for advanced courses on the subject.

Innovation in Manufacturing Networks - Eighth IFIP International Conference on Information Technology for Balanced Automation... Innovation in Manufacturing Networks - Eighth IFIP International Conference on Information Technology for Balanced Automation Systems, Porto, Portugal, June 23-25, 2008 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008)
Americo Azevedo
R2,898 Discovery Miles 28 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Innovation in Manufacturing Networks A fundamental concept of the emergent business, scientific and technological paradigms ces area, innovation the ability to apply new ideas to products, processes, organizational practices and business models - is crucial for the future competitiveness of organizations in a continually increasingly globalised, knowledge-intensive marketplace. Responsiveness, agility as well as the high performance of manufacturing systems is responsible for the recent changes in addition to the call for new approaches to achieve cost-effective responsiveness at all the levels of an enterprise. Moreover, creating appropriate frameworks for exploring the most effective synergies between human potential and automated systems represents an enormous challenge in terms of processes characterization, modelling, and the development of adequate support tools. The implementation and use of Automation Systems requires an ever increasing knowledge of enabling technologies and Business Practices. Moreover, the digital and networked world will surely trigger new business practices. In this context and in order to achieve the desired effective and efficiency performance levels, it is crucial to maintain a balance between both the technical aspects and the human and social aspects when developing and applying new innovations and innovative enabling technologies. BASYS conferences have been developed and organized so as to promote the development of balanced automation systems in an attempt to address the majority of the current open issues.

High Performance Computing and Applications - Second International Conference, HPCA 2009, Shanghai, China, August 10-12, 2009,... High Performance Computing and Applications - Second International Conference, HPCA 2009, Shanghai, China, August 10-12, 2009, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
Wu Zhang, Zhangxin Chen, Craig C. Douglas, Weiqin Tong
R2,965 Discovery Miles 29 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Second International Conference on High-Performance Computing and Appli- tions (HPCA 2009) was a follow-up event of the successful HPCA 2004. It was held in Shanghai, a beautiful, active, and modern city in China, August 10-12, 2009. It served as a forum to present current work by researchers and software developers from around the world as well as to highlight activities in the high-performance c- puting area. It aimed to bring together research scientists, application pioneers, and software developers to discuss problems and solutions and to identify new issues in this area. This conference emphasized the development and study of novel approaches for high-performance computing, the design and analysis of high-performance - merical algorithms, and their scientific, engineering, and industrial applications. It offered the conference participants a great opportunity to exchange the latest research results, heighten international collaboration, and discuss future research ideas in HPCA. In addition to 24 invited presentations, the conference received over 300 contr- uted submissions from over ten countries and regions worldwide, about 70 of which were accepted for presentation at HPCA 2009. The conference proceedings contain some of the invited presentations and contributed submissions, and cover such research areas of interest as numerical algorithms and solutions, high-performance and grid c- puting, novel approaches to high-performance computing, massive data storage and processing, hardware acceleration, and their wide applications.

Hardware-dependent Software - Principles and Practice (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009): Wolfgang Ecker,... Hardware-dependent Software - Principles and Practice (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
Wolfgang Ecker, Wolfgang Muller, Rainer Doemer
R2,878 Discovery Miles 28 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Despite its importance, the role of HdS is most often underestimated and the topic is not well represented in literature and education. To address this, Hardware-dependent Software brings together experts from different HdS areas. By providing a comprehensive overview of general HdS principles, tools, and applications, this book provides adequate insight into the current technology and upcoming developments in the domain of HdS. The reader will find an interesting text book with self-contained introductions to the principles of Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS), the emerging BIOS successor UEFI, and the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL). Other chapters cover industrial applications, verification, and tool environments. Tool introductions cover the application of tools in the ASIP software tool chain (i.e. Tensilica) and the generation of drivers and OS components from C-based languages. Applications focus on telecommunication and automotive systems.

Code Optimization Techniques for Embedded Processors - Methods, Algorithms, and Tools (Paperback, Softcover reprint of... Code Optimization Techniques for Embedded Processors - Methods, Algorithms, and Tools (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2000)
Rainer Leupers
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The building blocks of today's and future embedded systems are complex intellectual property components, or cores, many of which are programmable processors. Traditionally, these embedded processors mostly have been pro grammed in assembly languages due to efficiency reasons. This implies time consuming programming, extensive debugging, and low code portability. The requirements of short time-to-market and dependability of embedded systems are obviously much better met by using high-level language (e.g. C) compil ers instead of assembly. However, the use of C compilers frequently incurs a code quality overhead as compared to manually written assembly programs. Due to the need for efficient embedded systems, this overhead must be very low in order to make compilers useful in practice. In turn, this requires new compiler techniques that take the specific constraints in embedded system de sign into account. An example are the specialized architectures of recent DSP and multimedia processors, which are not yet sufficiently exploited by existing compilers."

FPGA Implementations of Neural Networks (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006): Amos R. Omondi, Jagath C.... FPGA Implementations of Neural Networks (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006)
Amos R. Omondi, Jagath C. Rajapakse
R4,376 Discovery Miles 43 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the 1980s and early 1990s there was signi?cant work in the design and implementation of hardware neurocomputers. Nevertheless, most of these efforts may be judged to have been unsuccessful: at no time have have ha- ware neurocomputers been in wide use. This lack of success may be largely attributed to the fact that earlier work was almost entirely aimed at developing custom neurocomputers, based on ASIC technology, but for such niche - eas this technology was never suf?ciently developed or competitive enough to justify large-scale adoption. On the other hand, gate-arrays of the period m- tioned were never large enough nor fast enough for serious arti?cial-neur- network (ANN) applications. But technology has now improved: the capacity and performance of current FPGAs are such that they present a much more realistic alternative. Consequently neurocomputers based on FPGAs are now a much more practical proposition than they have been in the past. This book summarizes some work towards this goal and consists of 12 papers that were selected, after review, from a number of submissions. The book is nominally divided into three parts: Chapters 1 through 4 deal with foundational issues; Chapters 5 through 11 deal with a variety of implementations; and Chapter 12 looks at the lessons learned from a large-scale project and also reconsiders design issues in light of current and future technology.

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