Embedded systems are becoming one of the major driving forces in computer science. Furthermore, it is the impact of embedded information technology that dictates the pace in most engineering domains. Nearly all technical products above a certain level of complexity are not only controlled but increasingly even dominated by their embedded computer systems.
Traditionally, such embedded control systems have been implemented in a monolithic, centralized way. Recently, distributed solutions are gaining increasing importance. In this approach, the control task is carried out by a number of...

Design frameworks have become an important infrastructure for building complex design systems. Electronic Design Automation Frameworks presents a state-of-the-art review of the latest research results covering this topic; results which are also of value for other design frameworks. The book contains the selected proceedings of the Fourth International Working Conference on Electronic Design Frameworks, organized by the International Federation for Information Processing and held in Gramado, Brazil, in November 1994.

Dieses Buch versucht, eine durchgangige Systematik des Hardwareent wurfs uber verschiedene Abstraktionsebenen hinweg darzustellen. Da bei wird von einem abstrakten Modell des Entwurfsvorgangs als uber mehrere Abstraktionsebenen reichender ruckgekoppelter Prozess aus gegangen. Auf der Basis dieses Modells werden verschiedene Klas sen von Entwurfsaktivitaten identifiziert. Es sind dies: Modellierung, Modifikation/Optimierung, Implementation und Verifikation. Die ver schiedenen Abstraktionsebenen (Systemebene, algorithmische Ebene, Registertransfer-Ebene, Gatterebene, Schalterebene/ Ebene des...