Hardware-Software Co-Design of Embedded Systems: The POLIS Approach by F. Balarin, M. Chiodo, Luciano Lavagno, Attila Jurecska, Claudio Passerone, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Bassam Tabbara, Ellen Sentovich, Harry Hsieh, Paolo Giusto (Hardcover, 1997)
Embedded systems are informally defined as a collection of programmable parts surrounded by ASICs and other standard components, that interact continuously with an environment through sensors and actuators. The programmable parts include micro-controllers and Digital Signal Processors (DSPs). Embedded systems are often used in life-critical situations, where reliability and safety are more important criteria than performance. Today, embedded systems are designed with an ad hoc approach that is heavily based on earlier experience with similar products and on manual design. Use of higher-level languages such as C helps structure the design somewhat, but with increasing complexity it is not sufficient. Formal verification and automatic synthesis of implementations are the surest ways to guarantee safety. Thus, the POLIS system which is a co-design environment for embedded systems is based on a formal model of computation. POLIS was initiated in 1988 as a research project at the University of California at Berkeley and, over the years, grew into a full design methodology with a software system supporting it.
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Publisher
Springer
ISBN-13
9780792399360
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87222789
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Subject Area
Electrical Engineering
Author
F. Balarin, M. Chiodo, Luciano Lavagno, Attila Jurecska, Claudio Passerone, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Bassam Tabbara, Ellen Sentovich, Harry Hsieh, Paolo Giusto
Publication Name
Hardware-Software Co-Design of Embedded Systems: the Polis Approach
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Computer Science, Physics
Publication Year
1997
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
297 Pages
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Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Volume
404
Item Weight
1390g
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Title_Author
Harry Hsieh, Luciano Lavagno, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, M. Chiodo, F. Balarin, Paolo Giusto, Ellen Sentovich, Attila Jurecska, Bassam Tabbara, Claudio Passerone
Series Title
The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science