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Modern multimedia systems are becoming increasingly multiprocessor and heterogeneous to match the high performance and low power demands placed on them by the large number of applications. The concurrent execution of these applications causes interference and unpredictability in the performance of these systems. In Multimedia Multiprocessor Systems, an analysis mechanism is presented to accurately predict the performance of multiple applications executing concurrently. With high consumer demand the time-to-market has become significantly lower. To cope with the complexity in designing such systems, an automated design-flow is needed that can generate systems from a high-level architectural description such that they are not error-prone and consume less time. Such a design methodology is presented for multiple use-cases -- combinations of active applications. A resource manager is also presented to manage the various resources in the system, and to achieve the goals of performance prediction, admission control and budget enforcement.

Multimedia systems. --- Multiprocessors. --- Multimedia systems --- Multiprocessors --- Electrical & Computer Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Electrical Engineering --- Computer Science --- Computer-based multimedia information systems --- Multimedia computing --- Multimedia information systems --- Multimedia knowledge systems --- Engineering. --- Microprocessors. --- Electronic circuits. --- Circuits and Systems. --- Processor Architectures. --- Electronic digital computers --- Multiprogramming (Electronic computers) --- Parallel processing (Electronic computers) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Systems engineering. --- Computer science. --- Informatics --- Science --- Engineering systems --- System engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial engineering --- System analysis --- Design and construction --- Minicomputers --- Electron-tube circuits --- Electric circuits --- Electron tubes --- Electronics

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This book is a single-source solution for anyone who is interested in exploring emerging reconfigurable nanotechnology at the circuit level. It lays down a solid foundation for circuits based on this technology having considered both manual as well as automated design flows. The authors discuss the entire design flow, consisting of both logic and physical synthesis for reconfigurable nanotechnology-based circuits. The authors describe how transistor reconfigurable properties can be exploited at the logic level to have a more efficient circuit design flow, as compared to conventional design flows suited for CMOS. Further, the book provides insights into hardware security features that can be intrinsically developed using the runtime reconfigurable features of this nanotechnology. Details an entire design automation flow for building circuits based on emerging reconfigurable nanotechnology; Describes logical abstraction for emerging reconfigurable nanotechnology that is essential for building newer circuits; Presents hardware security solutions that use reconfigurable nanotechnology to complement contemporary CMOS circuits.

Electronic circuits. --- Embedded computer systems. --- Microprocessors. --- Computer architecture. --- Electronic Circuits and Systems. --- Embedded Systems. --- Processor Architectures.

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This book addresses the challenges associated with efficient Mixed-Criticality (MC) system design. We focus on application analysis through execution time analysis and task scheduling analysis in order to execute more low-criticality tasks in the system, i.e., improving the Quality-of-Service (QoS), while guaranteeing the correct execution of high-criticality tasks. Further, this book addresses the challenge of enhancing QoS using parallelism in multi-processor hardware platforms. Provides an overview of the state-of-the-art in Mixed-Criticality research, related to Quality-of-Service improvement; Describes a novel theoretical approach to obtaining Worst-Case Execution Times (WCETs); Utilizes machine learning models and objective optimization techniques to improve the resource utilization and QoS. .

Electronic circuits. --- Embedded computer systems. --- Electronic circuit design. --- Electronic Circuits and Systems. --- Embedded Systems. --- Electronics Design and Verification.

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This book describes a new, coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture (CGRA), called Blocks, and puts it in the context of computer architectures, and in particular of other CGRAs. The book starts with an extensive evaluation of historic and existing CGRAs and their strengths and weaknesses. This also leads to a better understanding and new definition of what distinguishes CGRAs from other architectural approaches. The authors introduce Blocks as unique due to its separate programmable control and data paths, allowing light-weight instruction decode units to be arbitrarily connected to one or more functional units (FUs) over a statically configured interconnect. The discussion includes an explanation of how to model architectures, resulting in an area and energy model for Blocks. The accuracy of this model is evaluated against fully implemented architectures, showing that although it is three orders of magnitude faster than synthesis the error margin is very acceptable. The book concludes with a case study on a real System-on-Chip, including a RISC architecture, the Blocks CGRA and peripherals. Provides a comprehensive overview of many coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures (CGRAs) proposed in the last 25 years, as well as a classification of those CGRAs; Offers a new view on the positioning of CGRAs; Provides an in-depth description of structure of the Blocks CGRA and its unique aspects; Includes an extensive evaluation of various performance aspects of Blocks, such as performance, energy and area, as well as a comparison with various traditional approaches; Uses a case study showing how Blocks can be used in a real system on-chip, and how performance of this system-on-chip can be estimated using the proposed model.

Electronics --- Electrical engineering --- Computer architecture. Operating systems --- microprocessoren --- embedded systems --- architectuur (informatica) --- elektrische circuits

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This volume presents the first translation in English of the complete poetry of Giacomo da Lentini, the first major lyric poet of the Italian vernacular.

Lyric poetry. --- To 1400