Computer System Design: System-On-Chip by Michael J. Flynn, Wayne Luk details from bookadda

The next generation of computer system designers will be less concerned about details of processors and memories, and more concerned about the elements of a system tailored to particular applications. These designers will have a fundamental knowledge of processors and other elements in the system, but the success of their design will depend on the skills in making system-level tradeoffs that optimize the cost, performance and other attributes to meet application requirements. This book provides a new treatment of computer system design, particularly for System-on-Chip (SOC), which addresses the issues mentioned above. It begins with a global introduction, from the high-level view to the lowest common denominator (the chip itself), then moves on to the three main building blocks of an SOC (processor, memory, and interconnect). Next is an overview of what makes SOC unique (its customization ability and the applications that drive it). The final chapter presents future challenges for system design and SOC possibilities.

Special Features

• provides a new treatment of computer system design, particularly for System-on-Chip (SOC)
• Bridges the gap between system design and SOC architecture
• Focuses on a hardware-oriented approach to system design
• Provides a high-level systems-centric view rather than a processor-centric view
• Written by leading researchers in the field of computer engineering
• Includes exercises at the end of each chapter

About The Author
Michael J. Flynn is Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Previously he worked at IBM in the areas of computer organization and design. He was design manager of prototype versions of the IBM 7090 and 7094/II, and later for the System 360 Model 91 Central Processing Unit. Between 1966 and 1974 Prof. Flynn was a faculty member of Northwestern University and the Johns Hopkins University. In 1975 he became Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and was Director of the Computer Systems Laboratory from 1977 to 1983. He was founding chairman of both the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture and the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Computer Architecture. He is the author of three books and over 250 technical papers.

Wayne Luk is a Professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, where he leads the Computer Systems Section and the Custom Computing Research Group. His research group is currently focusing on theory and practice of reconfigurable architectures and the associated compilation techniques. The courses that he teaches include Computer Architecture and Custom Computing. His research interests include architectures, design methods, languages, tools and models for custom hardware, parallel computers and embedded systems, particularly those involving reconfigurable devices such as field-programmable gate arrays, and their applications in areas including machine vision and sensor processing for biomedical and industrial systems.

Table of Contents

• Introduction to the Systems Approach
• Chip Basics: Time, Area, Power, Reliability, and Confi gurability
• Processors
• Memory Design: System-on-Chip and Board-Based Systems
• Interconnect
• Customization and Confi gurability
• Application Studies
• What's Next: Challenges Ahead
• Appendix: Tools for Processor Evaluation
• References
• Index