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Summary
Summary
Despite its importance, the role of HdS is most often underestimated and the topic is not well represented in literature and education. To address this, Hardware-dependent Software brings together experts from different HdS areas. By providing a comprehensive overview of general HdS principles, tools, and applications, this book provides adequate insight into the current technology and upcoming developments in the domain of HdS. The reader will find an interesting text book with self-contained introductions to the principles of Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS), the emerging BIOS successor UEFI, and the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL). Other chapters cover industrial applications, verification, and tool environments. Tool introductions cover the application of tools in the ASIP software tool chain (i.e. Tensilica) and the generation of drivers and OS components from C-based languages. Applications focus on telecommunication and automotive systems.
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As embedded systems such as cell phones and other consumer products are developed, interest in hardware-dependent software applications has increased. This book tries to fill the need for software developers to understand more about hardware, and for hardware developers to understand the kind of applications their equipment will run. The ten-chapter work covering a variety of topics is written by different authors, which gives the book the feeling of a collection of research papers. Readers should be slightly familiar with computer hardware structure and programming principles to understand the content. Chapters include "Basic Concepts of Real Time Operating Systems," "UEFI" (unified extensible firmware interface), "Hardware Abstraction Layer," "HW/SW Interface," "Firmware Development ...," "Generation and Use of an ASIP Software Tool Chain," and "Accurate RTOS Modeling...." There are no exercises for students to complete, but each chapter includes a good set of references. The book includes hardware diagrams with associated software paths, and fragments of C code demonstrate various applications. Useful as a reference source rather than a textbook. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections. H. J. Bender Stratford University
Table of Contents
| Preface |
| Chapter 1 Hardware-dependent Software G++ |
| Introduction and OverviewWolfgang Ecker and Wolfgang M++ller and Rainer D+ mer |
| 1.1 Increasing Complexity |
| 1.2 Hardware-dependent Software |
| 1.3 Chapter Overview |
| References |
| Chapter 2 Basic Concepts of Real Time Operating SystemsFranz Rammig and Michael Ditze and Peter Janacik and Tales Heimfarth and Timo Kerstan and Simon Oberthuer and Katharina Stahl |
| 2.1 Introduction |
| 2.2 Characteristics of Real-Time Tasks |
| 2.3 Real-Time Scheduling |
| 2.4 Operating System Designs |
| 2.5 RTOS for Safety Critical Systems |
| 2.6 Multi-Core Architectures |
| 2.7 Operating Systems for Wireless Sensor Networks |
| 2.8 Real-Time Requirements of Multimedia Application |
| 2.9 Conclusions |
| References |
| Chapter 3 UEFI: From Reset Vector to Operating SystemVincent Zimmer and Michael Rothman and Robert Hale |
| 3.1 Introduction |
| 3.2 The Ever Growing Ever Changing BIOS |
| 3.3 Time for a Change |
| 3.4 UEFI and Standardization of BIOS |
| 3.5 Framework, Foundation, and Platform Initialization |
| Chapter 4 Hardware Abstraction Layer G++ |
| Introduction and OverviewKatalin Popovici and Ahmed Jerraya |
| 4.1 Introduction |
| 4.2 Software Stack |
| 4.3 Hardware Abstraction Layer |
| 4.4 Existing Commercial HAL |
| 4.5 Overview of the Software Design and Validation Flow |
| 4.6 HAL Execution and Simulation Using Software Development Platforms |
| 4.7 Experiments |
| 4.8 Conclusions |
| References |
| Chapter 5 HW/SW Interface G++ Implementation and ModelingWolfgang Ecker and Volkan Esen and Thomas Steininger and Michael Velten |
| 5.1 Introduction |
| 5.2 Reading and Writing Data Words |
| 5.3 Bit Fields |
| 5.4 Register Address and Data Mismatch |
| 5.5 Textual Specification of the SIF |
| 5.6 Register Header File |
| 5.7 SIF Driver Functions |
| 5.8 Synchronization |
| 5.9 Template Based Code Generation |
| 5.10 Modeling the HW/SW Interface |
| 5.11 Conclusions |
| References |
| Chapter 6 Firmware Development for Evolving Digital Communication TechnologiesStefan Heinen and Michael Joost |
| 6.1 Introduction |
| 6.2 Evolution of Wireless Standards and the Consequences |
| 6.3 System Level Design Flow |
| 6.4 Hardware /Firmware Interface |
| 6.5 Test Bench |
| 6.6 Summary |
| References |
| Chapter 7 Generation and Use of an ASIP Software Tool ChainSterling Augustine and Marc Gauthier and Steve Leibson and Peter Macliesh and Grant Martin and Dror Maydan and Nenad Nedeljkovic and Bob Wilson |
| 7.1 Introduction |
| 7.2 Range of Processor Configurability |
| 7.3 Models for Generating Software Development Tools |
| 7.4 Evolution of Tool-Development Approaches |
| 7.5 The C/C++ Compiler |
| 7.6 The Assembler |
| 7.7 The Linker |
| 7.8 The Loader |
| 7.9 The Disassembler |
| 7.10 The Debugger |
| 7.11 Other Software-Development Tools |
| 7.12 Operating Systems and Other System Software |
| 7.13 The Instruction Set Simulator (ISS) |
| 7.14 System Simulation |
| 7.15 The IDE (Integrated Development Environment) |
| 7.16 Conclusions and Futures |
| References |
| Chapter 8 High-Level Development, Modeling and Automatic Generation of Hardware-Dependent SoftwareGunar Schirner and Rainer D+ mer and Andreas Gerstlauer |
| 8.1 Introduction |
| 8.2 Software-enabled System Design Flow |
| 8.3 Software Generation Overview |
| 8.4 Hardware-dependent Software Generation |
| 8.5 Experimental Results |
| 8.6 Conclusions |
| References |
| Chapter 9 Accurate RTOS Modeling and Analysis with SystemCHenning Zabel and Wolfgang M++ller and Andreas Gerstlauer |
| 9.1 Introduction |
| 9.2 SystemC RTOS Model |
| 9.3 Related Approaches |
| 9.4 Applications |
| 9.5 Conclusions |
| References |
| Chapter 10 Verification ofAUTOSAR |
| Software by SystemC-Based |
| Virtual PrototypingMatthias Krause and Oliver Bringmann and Wolfgang Rosenstiel |
| 10.1 Introduction |
| 10.2 Concepts of AUTOSAR |
| 10.3 Different System Views on Distributed Embedded Systems |
| 10.4 Applying SystemC for AUTOSAR Software Verification |
| 10.5 Integration of Timing Behavior into Virtual Prototypes |
| 10.6 Application Example |
| 10.7 Conclusions |
| References |
| Index |
