Hardware Software Co-Design of a Multimedia SOC Platform is one of the first of its kinds to provide a comprehensive overview of the design and implementation of the hardware and software of an SoC platform for multimedia applications. Topics covered in this book range from system level design methodology, multimedia algorithm implementation, a sub-word parallel, single-instruction-multiple data (SIMD) processor design, and its virtual platform implementation, to the development of an SIMD parallel compiler as well as a real-time operating system (RTOS). Hardware Software Co-Design of a Multimedia SOC Platform is written for practitioner engineers and technical managers who want to gain first hand knowledge about the hardware-software design process of an SoC platform. It offers both tutorial-like details to help readers become familiar with a diverse range of subjects, and in-depth analysis for advanced readers to pursue further.

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Foreword by Giovanni de Micheli. Preface. Acknowledgments. List of Figures. List of Tables. 1. INTRODUCTION. 2. DESIGN CONSIDERATION. 1. Platform-Based Design. 2. System Modeling. 3. Video Coding. 4. Image Processing. 5. Cryptography. 6. Digital Communication. 7. Multimedia Instruction Set Design. 3. SYSTEM LEVEL DESIGN. 1. Abstraction Levels. 2. Algorithm Level Verification. 3. Transaction Level Modeling. 4. System Level Development Tools. 4. EMBEDDED PROCESSOR DESIGN. 1. Specific Instruction-Set. 2. Data Level Parallelism. 3. Instruction Level Parallelism. 4. Thread Level Parallelism. 5. PARALLEL COMPILER. 1. Vectorization. 2. Simdization. 3. ILP Scheduling. 4. Threading. 5. Compiler Technique. 6. Compiler Infrastructures. 6. IMPLEMENTATION OF H.264 ON PLX. 1. Instruction Set Decision for H.264. 2. Hardware/Software Partitioning. 3. Untimed Virtual Prototype. 4. Timed SystemC Modeling. 5. PLX Chip Design. 7. REAL-TIME OPERATING SYSTEM FOR PLX. 1. PRRP Scheduler. 2. Memory Management. 3. Communication and Synchronization Primitives. 4. Multimedia Applications in RTOS for PLX. 5. Application Development Environment. 6. Experimental Results. 8. CONCLUSION. References.