Embedded System Design

Embedded System Design - A Unified HardwareSoftware ApproachEmbedded System Design: A Unified Hardware/Software Approach
Frank Vahid and Tony Givargis
Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of California Riverside, CA 92521 vahid@cs.ucr.edu http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~vahid Draft version, Fall 1999

Copyright 1999, Frank Vahid and Tony Givargis

Preface
This book introduces embedded system design using a modern approach. Modern design requires a designer to have a unified view of software and hardware, seeing them not as completely different domains, but rather as two implementation options along a continuum of options varying in their design metrics (cost, performance, power, flexibility, etc.). Three important trends have made such a unified view possible. First, integrated circuit (IC) capacities have increased to the point that