Books in the Systems on Silicon series

One critical barrier to the timely release of embedded system products is integrating the design of the hardware and software systems. Including over 50 papers, this title offers a set of methodologies and techniques created to support the concurrent design of both systems, effectively reducing multiple iterations and major redesigns.

Suitable for early adopters of the language version, for tool implementers, and for those just curious about where VHDL is headed, this title provides an introduction to the features of the IEEE standard for the VHDL hardware description language.

Rosetta permits designers to specify requirements and constraints independent of their low level implementation and to integrate the designs of domains as distinct as digital and analog electronics, and the mechanical, optical, fluidic and thermal subsystems with which they interact. This book provides an introduction to the language.

Suitable for researchers and practicing engineers concerned with power-efficient, FPGA design, this title describes power reduction techniques for FPGAs. It presents comprehensive review of leakage-tolerant techniques that empowers designers to minimize power dissipation.

Takes a pragmatic, example based approach to unraveling the mysteries of AOP. This book helps to learn how to: use AOP to organize your code in a way that makes it easy to deal with the things you really care about in your verification environments.

Demonstrates how to create and use simulation models for verifying ASIC and FPGA designs and board-level designs that use off-the-shelf digital components. This book illustrates how ASICs and FPGAs can be verified in the larger context of a board or a system.

Develops organizing principles for understanding, assessing and comparing the different models of computation necessary for system level modeling. This book identifies the representation of time as the essential feature for distinguishing these models. It is suitable for practitioners, researchers and students of complex electronic systems design.

Addresses the features of VHDL-2008. This book presents a structured guide to the modeling facilities offered by VHDL. It shows how VHDL functions to help design digital systems. It also includes case studies and source code used to develop testbenches and case study examples.