... the 802.11bCompactFlash NIC 74 The Value of Parsing the CIS 77 Full Throttle 77 Chapter 7: LearningtoTalkto802.11bCompactFlashNICs 79 What the 802.11b ... the Linux 802.11b stuff is aimed at getting various manufacturers’ PCMCIA 802.11b network cards to work with Linux desktop machines The 802.11b basic routines I needed to implement 802.11b with ... code The 802.11bCompactFlashNICs that can be used by the AirDrop series of 802.11b devices are shown in Photo 1.3 Why Are We Doing This? Photo 1.3: Everything 802.11b that we will need to participate...
... least coming close to living up to the high standard they have created Finally, I extend my thanks to the contributors to the Linux TCP/IP implementation There are too many to mention here, but ... rate includes overhead due to the presence of the stop and start bits To translate baud rate to character rate, you have to take into account the number of bits used to encode each character For ... from operator to character operator [NEWTON98a] 1871 Baudot 5-bit code; Represents Automatic printing telegraph [ENCBRITa] alphanumeric data Also known as IA2 1910 Telex Network of automatic printing...
... least coming close to living up to the high standard they have created Finally, I extend my thanks to the contributors to the Linux TCP/IP implementation There are too many to mention here, but ... rate includes overhead due to the presence of the stop and start bits To translate baud rate to character rate, you have to take into account the number of bits used to encode each character For ... from operator to character operator [NEWTON98a] 1871 Baudot 5-bit code; Represents Automatic printing telegraph [ENCBRITa] alphanumeric data Also known as IA2 1910 Telex Network of automatic printing...
... whereas desktop operating systems can provide core dumps or other diagnostic aids To make in-system debugging possible, simulators and emulators peer into the embedded system Each tries to approximate ... a nonvectored system simply jumps to the known start location and executes what's there The ISR may have to test each interrupt source in turn to implement priority, or to simply jump to a different ... developers are so lucky as to be involved in the hardware development process, the opportunity to influence the design is too important to pass over Wish-list items to ask for include the following...
... brings it into the instruction cache on the ATEB board for execution, similar to [5] The memory must also contain any data that cannot fit into the data cache and is used too often to be swapped ... that is 96 bits This allows for long operands to pass from the cache to the arithmetic units in a single cycle The logical blocks that are unique to this design are the ARM I/O interface and the ... execution engine needs to know whether a method is to be interpreted as bytecode or executed in the ARM processor For this reason, the class loader assigns a special flag to every hardware method...
... whereas desktop operating systems can provide core dumps or other diagnostic aids To make in-system debugging possible, simulators and emulators peer into the embedded system Each tries to approximate ... a nonvectored system simply jumps to the known start location and executes what's there The ISR may have to test each interrupt source in turn to implement priority, or to simply jump to a different ... developers are so lucky as to be involved in the hardware development process, the opportunity to influence the design is too important to pass over Wish-list items to ask for include the following...
... Roberto Passerone Dipartimento di Ingegneia e Scienza dell’ Informazione University of Trento Trento, Italy Chuck Pilkington STMicroelectronics, Inc Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Alessandro Pinto United ... challenging to their design Moreover, these systems have particularly tight performance, time -to- market, and cost constraints To meet these constraints, engineers must find solutions to efficiently ... Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique Rennes, France Anton Cervin Department of Automatic Control Lund Institute of Technology...
... characteristics that we want to analyze are the worst-case end -to- end delays for the two video streams from the input to the output of the set-top box Moreover, we want to analyze the memory demand ... of tokens via their input channels, operate on the arriving tokens, and produce output tokens that are sent to the output channels We also assume that the components need resources in order to ... synchronization • Tokenizer: A tokenizer receives fractional tokens at the input that may correspond to a partially transmitted packet or a partially executed task A discrete output token is only...
... the lru information has to be renewed In all other cases, the lru information has to be used to determine which tag has to be overwritten After that, the new tag has to be written instead of ... contained in the processor description that is used by the annotation tool With regard to this, the tool uses a modeling of the pipeline to determine which instructions of the basic block will be executed ... the translated program has to be divided into several cache analysis blocks This has to be done until the tag changes or the basic block ends After that, a function call to the cache handling model...
... execution times, and mapping to the platform are modeled as timed automata [3], allowing efficient tools such as UPPAAL [28] to “verify” schedulability using model checking The tool TIMES [4] has been ... optimization tools [12] The scope is to obtain system configurations with less sensitivities to later design changes More details are given in Section 3.7 • System dimensioning: To reduce the ... also used to bound the search space investigated by the stochastic sensitivity analysis approach Formal Performance Analysis 79 The advantage of the exact analysis, when compared to the stochastic...
... used stopwatch automata rather than clocks to model the timing of tasks, which allows preemption to be dealt with in a more natural way In general, the reachability problem for stopwatch automata ... EtotalCostInSystem(Power) == 7:true EtotalCostInSystem(Power) > 7: false EcostOnPE[0][Memory] == 17: true EcostOnPE[0][Memory] > 17: false EcostOnPE[1][Memory] == 12: true EcostOnPE[1][Memory] ... EtotalCostInSystem(Power) == 7: true EtotalCostInSystem(Power) > 7: false EcostOnPE[0][Memory] == 11: true EcostOnPE[0][Memory] > 11: false EcostOnPE[1][Memory] == 12: true EcostOnPE[1][Memory]...
... resulting execution jitter leads to very poor regulation performance Next, a CBS is added to the aperiodic task The server period is set to Ts = 10 ms and the utilization to Us = 0.49, implying a maximum ... interfaces to the wheel motors and the wheel encoders measuring the wheel angular velocities The third ATMEL AVR Mega16 is used as the interface to the ultrasound transmitter and to the obstacle-detection ... converter to the Tmote Sky The network routing is implemented using a TrueTime model of the ad hoc on-demand vector (AODV) routing protocol (see [31]) commonly used TrueTime: Simulation Tool for...
... implements a constructor (init), a work section (process), and a destructor (end) To obtain access to I/O port data buffers, the blocks have to use a predefined API A run -to- completion execution ... source code is untouched 7.4 MultiFlex Streaming Mapping Tools 7.4.1 Task Assignment Tool The main objective of the MpAssign tool (see Figure 7.5) is to assign application blocks to processors while ... cost factor (Cproc , Ccomm , and Csucc ) and indicates the significance of the factor in the total cost C p, t as compared with the other factors The factors are weighted by the designer to set...
... grant or release atomic accesses to vectors of data that can be loaded or stored out of order, but relative to the last access (i.e., with no explicit address) This corresponds to virtual architecture ... target simulator It took about h to execute the application on the simulator of our initial configuration (Figure 8.15a) The simulation porting overhead is directly proportional to the target-dependent ... IDCT IDCT_slave 0x2F000000 (b) 10 IDCT IDCT_interrupt 0x2F000000...
... Scheme A Scheme B Scheme B Scheme B Scheme B Scheme B Scheme B — — — Mesh Torus Mesh Torus Mesh Torus Mesh Torus Mesh Torus Mesh Torus AMBA AMBA AMBA Interconnect IPs Mapping over NoC 17,435,476 17,436,640 ... developed to bring the embedded electronics industry to a new level of efficiency To demonstrate this view, we will first present the design challenges for future systems and a manifesto espousing ... engineering is necessary to define a sound approach to the needs of the system and IC (integrated circuit) companies as they try to serve their customers better, and to develop their products...
... the QSS need to use these communication primitives To convey relevant design information to the QSS, we use a back-end tool that translates a design to be scheduled with the QSS into a Petri net ... QSS into the METROPOLIS framework, we addressed two main problems: how to verify if a design satisfies the required set of rules and how to convey all relevant design information to the QSS tool ... automatic LOC-monitor technique to large designs with complex traces, we have found that in most cases the analysis completes in minutes and consumes only hundreds of bytes of data memory to store...
... The EDA industry has to embrace the new paradigms and venture into unchartered waters to grow beyond where it is today It must create the necessary tools to help engineers to apply the new paradigms ... algorithms and tools must be improved to offer a solid foundation to the users • Models and use cases have to be developed • The scope of system-level design must be extended to include fault tolerance, ... semiconductor industry must recognize the importance of investing in training and tools for their engineers to be able to bring new products and services to market Acknowledgments We wish to acknowledge...
... vectorizing C compiler is available to translate C functions to NML modules The vectorizing compiler for the XPP array analyzes the code for data dependencies, vectorizes those code sections automatically, ... extensions to support the ASProCore processing array The toolchain is based on the GNU compiler framework, with dedicated pre and postprocessing tools to compile and optimise the parallel extensions to ... to run the same kernel binary on different FPGA designs When combined with the ability to load operating system modules into a running kernel, the indirection also enables a system to react to...
... build a monitor that attempts to capture the violation of the property This monitor is the (untimed) Büchi automaton shown in Figure 13.7 The monitor nondeterministically chooses to monitor an event ... impossible to solve (i.e., undecidable) for hybrid automata are easier or solvable for timed automata 13.2.1 Timed Automata Timed automata [9] extend finite automata by adding variables that are able to ... case The automaton then “jumps” to state 1: event a occurs in this jump, which is instantaneous The automaton proceeds in the same pattern: it spends some time t1 in state 1, then jumps to state...