Energy Efficient Hardware-Software Co-Synthesis Using Reconfigurable Hardware

Rapid energy estimation for energy efficient applications using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) remains a challenging research topic. Energy dissipation and efficiency have prevented the widespread use of FPGA devices in embedded systems. Helping overcome these challenges, this book offers solutions for the development of energy efficient applications using FPGAs. It provides a framework for high-level hardware-software application development, describes energy performance modeling for reconfigurable system-on-chip devices, and explores energy efficient designs for various applications. The authors present a two-step rapid energy estimation technique that enables high-level design space exploration and offer a hardware-software design for energy efficient implementations of operating systems.

Jingzhao Ou works for the DSP Design Tools and Methodologies Group at Xilinx in San Jose, California. Viktor K. Prasanna is the Charles Lee Powell Chair in Engineering and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Southern California.

Introduction. Reconfigurable Hardware. A High-Level Hardware-Software Application Development Framework. Energy Performance Modeling and Energy Efficient Mapping for a Class of Applications. High-Level Rapid Energy Estimation and Design Space Exploration. Hardware-Software Co-Design for Energy Efficient Implementations of Operating Systems. Concluding Remarks and Future Directions. References.