System Level Design of Reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip

Describes in a consolidated way the results of a three-year research project, during which researchers from leading european industrial companies and research institutes have been working together. Contributors come from academia and industry, such companies as INTRACOM, VTT and Nokia being representedProposes brand new approaches based on SystemC and OCAPI-XL that explicitly handle issues related to reconfiguration at the system levelIntroduces a design flow for designing reconfigurable systems-on-chipProvides a comprehensive introduction to reconfigurable hardware and existing reconfigurable technologiesPresents examples on how reconfigurable hardware can be exploited for the development of complex systemsProvides useful feedback from the application of the proposed design flow and system level design methods on different real life design cases