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Author : John Williams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402084461

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Digital VLSI Design with Verilog by John Williams Pdf

Verilog and its usage has come a long way since its original invention in the mid-80s by Phil Moorby. At the time the average design size was around ten thousand gates, and simulation to validate the design was its primary usage. But between then and now designs have increased dramatically in size, and automatic logic synthesis from RTL has become the standard design ?ow for most design. Indeed, the language has evolved and been re-standardized too. Overtheyears,manybookshavebeenwrittenaboutVerilog.Myown,coauthored with Phil Moorby, had the goal of de?ning the language and its usage, providing - amples along the way. It has been updated with ?ve new editions as the language and its usage evolved. However this new book takes a very different and unique view; that of the designer. John Michael Williams has a long history of working and teaching in the ?eld of IC and ASIC design. He brings an indepth presentation of Verilog and how to use it with logic synthesis tools; no other Verilog book has dealt with this topic as deeply as he has. If you need to learn Verilog and get up to speed quickly to use it for synthesis, this book is for you. It is sectioned around a set of lessons including presentation and explanation of new concepts and approaches to design, along with lab sessions.

Author : N. K. Jha,S. Gupta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1139437437

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Testing of Digital Systems by N. K. Jha,S. Gupta Pdf

Device testing represents the single largest manufacturing expense in the semiconductor industry, costing over $40 billion a year. The most comprehensive and wide ranging book of its kind, Testing of Digital Systems covers everything you need to know about this vitally important subject. Starting right from the basics, the authors take the reader through automatic test pattern generation, design for testability and built-in self-test of digital circuits before moving on to more advanced topics such as IDDQ testing, functional testing, delay fault testing, memory testing, and fault diagnosis. The book includes detailed treatment of the latest techniques including test generation for various fault models, discussion of testing techniques at different levels of integrated circuit hierarchy and a chapter on system-on-a-chip test synthesis. Written for students and engineers, it is both an excellent senior/graduate level textbook and a valuable reference.

Author : Ivan S. Kourtev,Baris Taskin,Eby G. Friedman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780387710563

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Timing Optimization Through Clock Skew Scheduling by Ivan S. Kourtev,Baris Taskin,Eby G. Friedman Pdf

This book details timing analysis and optimization techniques for circuits with level-sensitive memory elements. It contains a linear programming formulation applicable to the timing analysis of large scale circuits and includes a delay insertion methodology that improves the efficiency of clock skew scheduling. Coverage also provides a framework for and results from implementing timing optimization algorithms in a parallel computing environment.

Author : Janick Bergeron
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780387312750

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Writing Testbenches using SystemVerilog by Janick Bergeron Pdf

Verification is too often approached in an ad hoc fashion. Visually inspecting simulation results is no longer feasible and the directed test-case methodology is reaching its limit. Moore's Law demands a productivity revolution in functional verification methodology. Writing Testbenches Using SystemVerilog offers a clear blueprint of a verification process that aims for first-time success using the SystemVerilog language. From simulators to source management tools, from specification to functional coverage, from I's and O's to high-level abstractions, from interfaces to bus-functional models, from transactions to self-checking testbenches, from directed testcases to constrained random generators, from behavioral models to regression suites, this book covers it all. Writing Testbenches Using SystemVerilog presents many of the functional verification features that were added to the Verilog language as part of SystemVerilog. Interfaces, virtual modports, classes, program blocks, clocking blocks and others SystemVerilog features are introduced within a coherent verification methodology and usage model. Writing Testbenches Using SystemVerilog introduces the reader to all elements of a modern, scalable verification methodology. It is an introduction and prelude to the verification methodology detailed in the Verification Methodology Manual for SystemVerilog. It is a SystemVerilog version of the author's bestselling book Writing Testbenches: Functional Verification of HDL Models.

Author : Tor M. Aamodt,Wilson Wai Lun Fung,Timothy G. Rogers
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031017599

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General-Purpose Graphics Processor Architectures by Tor M. Aamodt,Wilson Wai Lun Fung,Timothy G. Rogers Pdf

Originally developed to support video games, graphics processor units (GPUs) are now increasingly used for general-purpose (non-graphics) applications ranging from machine learning to mining of cryptographic currencies. GPUs can achieve improved performance and efficiency versus central processing units (CPUs) by dedicating a larger fraction of hardware resources to computation. In addition, their general-purpose programmability makes contemporary GPUs appealing to software developers in comparison to domain-specific accelerators. This book provides an introduction to those interested in studying the architecture of GPUs that support general-purpose computing. It collects together information currently only found among a wide range of disparate sources. The authors led development of the GPGPU-Sim simulator widely used in academic research on GPU architectures. The first chapter of this book describes the basic hardware structure of GPUs and provides a brief overview of their history. Chapter 2 provides a summary of GPU programming models relevant to the rest of the book. Chapter 3 explores the architecture of GPU compute cores. Chapter 4 explores the architecture of the GPU memory system. After describing the architecture of existing systems, Chapters 3 and 4 provide an overview of related research. Chapter 5 summarizes cross-cutting research impacting both the compute core and memory system. This book should provide a valuable resource for those wishing to understand the architecture of graphics processor units (GPUs) used for acceleration of general-purpose applications and to those who want to obtain an introduction to the rapidly growing body of research exploring how to improve the architecture of these GPUs.

Author : Helmut Seidl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642288685

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Programming Languages and Systems by Helmut Seidl Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2012, held in Tallinn, Estonia, as part of ETAPS 2012, in March/April 2012. The 28 full papers, presented together with one full length invited talk, were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. Papers were invited on all aspects of programming language research, including: programming paradigms and styles, methods and tools to write and specify programs and languages, methods and tools for reasoning about programs, methods and tools for implementation, and concurrency and distribution.

Author : James Henry Carmouche
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780132796682

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IPSec Virtual Private Network Fundamentals by James Henry Carmouche Pdf

An introduction to designing and configuring Cisco IPsec VPNs Understand the basics of the IPsec protocol and learn implementation best practices Study up-to-date IPsec design, incorporating current Cisco innovations in the security and VPN marketplace Learn how to avoid common pitfalls related to IPsec deployment Reinforce theory with case studies, configuration examples showing how IPsec maps to real-world solutions IPsec Virtual Private Network Fundamentals provides a basic working knowledge of IPsec on various Cisco routing and switching platforms. It provides the foundation necessary to understand the different components of Cisco IPsec implementation and how it can be successfully implemented in a variety of network topologies and markets (service provider, enterprise, financial, government). This book views IPsec as an emerging requirement in most major vertical markets, explaining the need for increased information authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation for secure transmission of confidential data. The book is written using a layered approach, starting with basic explanations of why IPsec was developed and the types of organizations relying on IPsec to secure data transmissions. It then outlines the basic IPsec/ISAKMP fundamentals that were developed to meet demand for secure data transmission. The book covers the design and implementation of IPsec VPN architectures using an array of Cisco products, starting with basic concepts and proceeding to more advanced topics including high availability solutions and public key infrastructure (PKI). Sample topology diagrams and configuration examples are provided in each chapter to reinforce the fundamentals expressed in text and to assist readers in translating concepts into practical deployment scenarios. Additionally, comprehensive case studies are incorporated throughout to map topics to real-world solutions.

Author : Brian Holdsworth,Clive Woods
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780080477305

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Digital Logic Design by Brian Holdsworth,Clive Woods Pdf

New, updated and expanded topics in the fourth edition include: EBCDIC, Grey code, practical applications of flip-flops, linear and shaft encoders, memory elements and FPGAs. The section on fault-finding has been expanded. A new chapter is dedicated to the interface between digital components and analog voltages. *A highly accessible, comprehensive and fully up to date digital systems text *A well known and respected text now revamped for current courses *Part of the Newnes suite of texts for HND/1st year modules

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780123859648

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GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition by Anonim Pdf

GPU Computing Gems, Jade Edition, offers hands-on, proven techniques for general purpose GPU programming based on the successful application experiences of leading researchers and developers. One of few resources available that distills the best practices of the community of CUDA programmers, this second edition contains 100% new material of interest across industry, including finance, medicine, imaging, engineering, gaming, environmental science, and green computing. It covers new tools and frameworks for productive GPU computing application development and provides immediate benefit to researchers developing improved programming environments for GPUs. Divided into five sections, this book explains how GPU execution is achieved with algorithm implementation techniques and approaches to data structure layout. More specifically, it considers three general requirements: high level of parallelism, coherent memory access by threads within warps, and coherent control flow within warps. Chapters explore topics such as accelerating database searches; how to leverage the Fermi GPU architecture to further accelerate prefix operations; and GPU implementation of hash tables. There are also discussions on the state of GPU computing in interactive physics and artificial intelligence; programming tools and techniques for GPU computing; and the edge and node parallelism approach for computing graph centrality metrics. In addition, the book proposes an alternative approach that balances computation regardless of node degree variance. Software engineers, programmers, hardware engineers, and advanced students will find this book extremely useful. This second volume of GPU Computing Gems offers 100% new material of interest across industry, including finance, medicine, imaging, engineering, gaming, environmental science, green computing, and more Covers new tools and frameworks for productive GPU computing application development and offers immediate benefit to researchers developing improved programming environments for GPUs Even more hands-on, proven techniques demonstrating how general purpose GPU computing is changing scientific research Distills the best practices of the community of CUDA programmers; each chapter provides insights and ideas as well as 'hands on' skills applicable to a variety of fields

Author : Boris Kment
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191056710

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Modality and Explanatory Reasoning by Boris Kment Pdf

Since the ground-breaking work of Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and others in the 1960s and 70s, one dominant interest of analytic philosophers has been in modal truths, which concerns the questions of what is possible and what is necessary. However, there is considerable controversy over the source and nature of necessity. In Modality and Explanatory Reasoning, Boris Kment takes a novel approach to the study of modality that places special emphasis on understanding the origin of modal notions in everyday thought. Kment argues that the concepts of necessity and possibility originate in a common type of thought experiment—counterfactual reasoning—that allows us to investigate explanatory connections. This procedure is closely related to the controlled experiments of empirical science. Necessity is defined in terms of causation and other forms of explanation such as grounding, the relation that connects metaphysically fundamental facts to non-fundamental ones. Therefore, contrary to a widespread view, explanation is more fundamental than modality. The study of modal facts is important for philosophy, not because these facts are of much metaphysical interest in their own right, but because they provide evidence about explanatory relationships. In the course of developing this position, the book offers new accounts of possible worlds, counterfactual conditionals, essential truths and their role in grounding, and a novel theory of how counterfactuals relate to causation and explanation.

Author : IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Publisher : Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers(IEEE)
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0780336623

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Proceedings of the ASP-DAC '97, Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 1997, January 28-31, 1997, Makuhari Messe, Nippon Convention Center, Chiba, Japan by IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Pdf

The Asia and South Pacific conference on design automation is the second in a series of biennial international conferences. It aims to provide the CAD/DA community with the opportunity to present ideas and concepts on upperstream design as well as methodologies of downstream design.

Author : Hyesoon Kim,Richard Vuduc,Sara Baghsorkhi,Jee Choi,Wen-mei W. Hwu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031017377

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Performance Analysis and Tuning for General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) by Hyesoon Kim,Richard Vuduc,Sara Baghsorkhi,Jee Choi,Wen-mei W. Hwu Pdf

General-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPU) have emerged as an important class of shared memory parallel processing architectures, with widespread deployment in every computer class from high-end supercomputers to embedded mobile platforms. Relative to more traditional multicore systems of today, GPGPUs have distinctly higher degrees of hardware multithreading (hundreds of hardware thread contexts vs. tens), a return to wide vector units (several tens vs. 1-10), memory architectures that deliver higher peak memory bandwidth (hundreds of gigabytes per second vs. tens), and smaller caches/scratchpad memories (less than 1 megabyte vs. 1-10 megabytes). In this book, we provide a high-level overview of current GPGPU architectures and programming models. We review the principles that are used in previous shared memory parallel platforms, focusing on recent results in both the theory and practice of parallel algorithms, and suggest a connection to GPGPU platforms. We aim to provide hints to architects about understanding algorithm aspect to GPGPU. We also provide detailed performance analysis and guide optimizations from high-level algorithms to low-level instruction level optimizations. As a case study, we use n-body particle simulations known as the fast multipole method (FMM) as an example. We also briefly survey the state-of-the-art in GPU performance analysis tools and techniques. Table of Contents: GPU Design, Programming, and Trends / Performance Principles / From Principles to Practice: Analysis and Tuning / Using Detailed Performance Analysis to Guide Optimization

Author : Daniel Ashlock
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783031021206

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Exploring Representation in Evolutionary Level Design by Daniel Ashlock Pdf

Automatic content generation is the production of content for games, web pages, or other purposes by procedural means. Search-based automatic content generation employs search-based algorithms to accomplish automatic content generation. This book presents a number of different techniques for search-based automatic content generation where the search algorithm is an evolutionary algorithm. The chapters treat puzzle design, the creation of small maps or mazes, the use of L-systems and a generalization of L-system to create terrain maps, the use of cellular automata to create maps, and, finally, the decomposition of the design problem for large, complex maps culminating in the creation of a map for a fantasy game module with designersupplied content and tactical features. The evolutionary algorithms used for the different types of content are generic and similar, with the exception of the novel sparse initialization technique are presented in Chapter 2. The points where the content generation systems vary are in the design of their fitness functions and in the way the space of objects being searched is represented. A large variety of different fitness functions are designed and explained, and similarly radically different representations are applied to the design of digital objects all of which are, essentially, maps for use in games.

Author : Stanley Leonard Hurst
Publisher : IET
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0852969015

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VLSI Testing by Stanley Leonard Hurst Pdf

Hurst, an editor at the Microelectronics Journal, analyzes common problems that electronics engineers and circuit designers encounter while testing integrated circuits and the systems in which they are used, and explains a variety of solutions available for overcoming them in both digital and mixed circuits. Among his topics are faults in digital circuits, generating a digital test pattern, signatures and self-tests, structured design for testability, testing structured digital circuits and microprocessors, and financial aspects of testing. The self- contained reference is also suitable as a textbook in a formal course on the subject. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic circuits
ISBN : UOM:39015058296347

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Asian Test Symposium by Anonim Pdf