Description:
Showing how to design multiprocessor computer systems that are streamlined for multimedia applications, this work presents architectures and design methodologies for parallel systems in embedded DSP applications. It describes unique techniques for optimizing communication and synchronization and provides several examples of practical applications that demonstrate the relevance of the techniques presented. This second edition updates the background material on existing embedded multiprocessors, including single-chip multiprocessors. It also summarizes the new research on dataflow models for signal processing that has been carried out since the publication of the first edition.
Review Quotes:
"While some of the methods [this book] describes are relatively simple, most are quite sophisticated. Yet examples are given that concretely demonstrate how these concepts can be applied in practical hardware architectures. Moreover, there is very little overlap with other books on parallel processing. The focus on application-specific processors and their use in embedded systems leads to a rather different set of techniques. I believe that this book defines a new discipline. It gives a systematic approach to problems that engineers previously have been able to tackle only in an ad hoc manner."
--Edward A. Lee, University of California, Berkeley, USA