High Performance Embedded Computing Handbook A Systems Perspective

A Comprehensive Reference by Leading Researchers in High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC)Over the past several decades, applications permeated by advances in digital signal processing have undergone unprecedented growth in capabilities. Because the editors and authors of High Performance Embedded Computing Handbook:A Systems Perspectivehave been significant contributors to this field, the principles and techniques presented in the handbook are reinforced by examples drawn from their work.The chapters cover the respective system components found in today's HPEC systems by addressing design trade-offs, implementation options, and techniques of the trade, and then solidifying the concepts with specific HPEC system examples. This approach provides a more valuable learning tool since the reader learns about the subject areas through factual implementation cases developed from the editors' and contributing authors' work in this field.Included areKey subsystems and componentsComputational characteristics of high performance embedded algorithms and applicationsFront-end real-time processor technologies such as analog-to-digital conversion, application-specific integrated circuits, field programmable gate arrays, and intellectual property-based designProgrammable HPEC systems technology, including interconnection fabrics, parallel and distributed processing, performance metrics and software architecture, and automatic code parallelization and optimizationExamples of complex HPEC systems representative of actual prototype developmentsApplication examples, including radar, communications, electro-optical, and sonar applicationsThe handbook is organized around a canonical framework that helps readers navigate through the chapters and concludes with a discussion of future trends in HPEC systems. The material is covered at a level that practicing engineers and HPEC computational practitioners can learn and adapt to suit their own implementation requirements.Martinez, David R. is the author of 'High Performance Embedded Computing Handbook A Systems Perspective', published 2007 under ISBN 9780849371974 and ISBN 084937197X.