Embedded Systems Design with Platform FPGAs - Principles and Practices

Front cover

Embedded Systems Design with Platform FPGAs

Copyright page

Table of contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1. Embedded Systems

1.2. Design Challenges

1.3. Platform FPGAs

Chapter in Review

1.A. Spectrometer Example

1.B. Introducing the Platform FPGA Tool Chain

Exercises

References

Chapter 2. The Target

2.1. CMOS Transistor

2.2. Programmable Logic Devices

2.3. Field-Programmable Gate Array

2.4. Hardware Description Languages

2.5. From HDL to Configuration Bitstream

Chapter in Review

2.A. Xilinx Virtex 5

2.B. Xilinx Integrated Software Environment

2.C. Creating and Generating Custom IP

Exercises

References

Chapter 3. System Design

3.1. Principles of System Design

3.2. Control Flow Graph

3.3. Hardware Design

3.4. Software Design

Chapter in Review

3.A. Platform FPGA Architecture Design

3.B. Embedded GNU/Linux System

Exercises

References

Chapter 4. Partitioning

4.1. Overview of Partitioning Problem

4.2. Analytical Solution to Partitioning

4.3. Communication

4.4. Practical Issues

Chapter in Review

4.A. Profilingwith Gprof

4.B. Linux Kernel

Exercises

References

Chapter 5. Spatial Design

5.1. Principles of Parallelism

5.2. Identifying Parallelism

5.3. Spatial Parallelism with Platform FPGAs

Chapter in Review

5.A. Useful VHDL Topics for Spatial Design

5.B. Debugging Platform FPGA Designs

Exercises

References

Chapter 6. Managing Bandwidth

6.1. Balancing Bandwidth

6.2. Platform FPGA Bandwidth Techniques

6.3. Scalable Designs

Chapter in Review

6.A. On-Chip Memory Access

6.B. Off-Chip Memory Access

Exercises

References

Chapter 7. Outside World

7.1. Point-to-Point Communication

7.2. Internetworking Communication

Chapter in Review

7.A. High-Speed Serial Communication

7.B. Low-Speed Communication

Exercises

References

Glossary

Index