Describing and Simulating Dynamic Reconfiguration in SystemC : Exemplified by a Dedicated 3D Collision Detection Hardware

ISBN-13: 9783838101453 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 212 str.

Andreas Raabe

Opis

Due to the on-going micro-miniaturisation in chipproduction, hardware development has changed fromplain circuit design into the development of complexheterogeneous systems within the last decade.Configurable logic devices evolved considerably aswell, but in some branches of the market there iseven more hunger for bigger chips to be filled withmore functionality. This is due to the trend to packcomplete chipsets onto a single platform resulting insystems-on-chip (SOC) and even completenetworks-on-chip (NOC).Exploiting the ability to dynamically reconfigure(i.e. partially change its functionality duringrun-time) enables the implementation of systems thatdo not fit into the chip completely. The majorobstacle here is that development tools do notsupport dynamic reconfiguration conveniently. Thisbook proposes a methodology for developing andrefining reconfigurable hardware on all abstractionlevels provided by the number one system developmentlanguage SystemC.

O autorze

Andreas Raabe completed his diploma studies in computer science
at the University of Bonn, where he also received his his
doctoral degree with distinction (summa cum laude). He is
currently a post-doctoral fellow at the International Computer
Science Institute Berkeley.