Technological progress is one of the driving forces behind the dramatic devel- mentofcomputersystemarchitecturesoverthe pastthreedecades.Eventhough it is quite clear that this development cannot only be measured by the ma- mum number of components on a chip, Moore’s Law may be and is often taken as a simple measure for the non-braked growth of computational power over the years. The more components are realizable on a chip, the more innovative and unconventional ideas can be realized by system architects. As a result, research in computer system architectures is more exciting than ever before. This book coversthe trends that shape the ?eld of computer system archit- tures.Thefundamenataltrade-o?inthedesignofcomputing systemsis between ?exibility, performance,powerconsumption, andchip area.The full exploitation of future silicon capacity requires new architecture approaches and new design paradigms such as multiple computers on a single chip, recon?gurable processor arrays, extensible processor architectures, and embedded memory technologies. For a successful use in practical applications, it is not enough to solve the ha- wareproblemsbutalsotodevelopplatformsthatprovidesoftwareinfrastructure and support e?ective programming. A quantum jump in complexity is achieved by embedded computing systems with an unprecedented level of connectivity linking together a growing n- ber of physical devices through networks. Embedded systems will become more and more pervasive as the component technologies become smaller, faster, and cheaper. Their complexity arises not only from the large number of components but also from a lack of determinism and a continual evolution of these systems.
Author(s): Lech Jóźwiak (auth.), Werner Grass, Bernhard Sick, Klaus Waldschmidt (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3894 : Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 500
Tags: Computer Communication Networks; Computer System Implementation; Operating Systems; Software Engineering; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Information Storage and Retrieval
Front Matter....Pages -
Life-Inspired Systems and Their Quality-Driven Design....Pages 1-16
The Robustness of Resource Allocations in Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems....Pages 17-30
FingerMouse – A Button Size Visual Hand Tracking and Segmentation Device....Pages 31-41
An Ad-Hoc Wireless Network Architecture for Face-to-Face Mobile Collaborative Applications....Pages 42-55
Background Data Acquisition and Carrying: The BlueDACS Project....Pages 56-68
Prototypical Implementation of Location-Aware Services Based on Super-Distributed RFID Tags....Pages 69-83
Combined Resource and Context Model for QoS-Aware Mobile Middleware....Pages 84-98
Distributed Modular Toolbox for Multi-modal Context Recognition....Pages 99-113
Dynamic Dictionary-Based Data Compression for Level-1 Caches....Pages 114-129
A Case for Dual-Mapping One-Way Caches....Pages 130-144
Cache Write-Back Schemes for Embedded Destructive-Read DRAM....Pages 145-159
A Processor Architecture with Effective Memory System for Sort-Last Parallel Rendering....Pages 160-175
Controller Synthesis for Mapping Partitioned Programs on Array Architectures....Pages 176-190
M 2 E: A Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output Function Extension for RISC-Based Extensible Processors....Pages 191-201
An Operating System Infrastructure for Fault-Tolerant Reconfigurable Networks....Pages 202-216
Architectural Tradeoffs in Wearable Systems....Pages 217-231
Do Trace Cache, Value Prediction and Prefetching Improve SMT Throughput?....Pages 232-251
Scalable and Partitionable Asynchronous Arbiter for Micro-threaded Chip Multiprocessors....Pages 252-267
GigaNetIC – A Scalable Embedded On-Chip Multiprocessor Architecture for Network Applications....Pages 268-282
Efficient System-on-Chip Energy Management with a Segmented Bloom Filter....Pages 283-297
Estimating Energy Consumption for an MPSoC Architectural Exploration....Pages 298-310
An Energy Consumption Model for an Embedded Java Virtual Machine....Pages 311-325
PASCOM: Power Model for Supercomputers....Pages 326-340
Power-Aware Collective Tree Exploration....Pages 341-351
Biologically-Inspired Optimization of Circuit Performance and Leakage: A Comparative Study....Pages 352-366
A Synchronous Multicast Application for Asymmetric Intra-campus Networks: Definition, Analysis and Evaluation....Pages 367-381
A Real-Time MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks: Virtual TDMA for Sensors (VTS)....Pages 382-396
An Effective Video Streaming Method for Video on Demand Services in Vertical Handoff....Pages 397-406
A High-Throughput System Architecture for Deep Packet Filtering in Network Intrusion Prevention....Pages 407-421
A Hierarchical Key Management Approach for Secure Multicast....Pages 422-434
A Cache Design for a Security Architecture for Microprocessors (SAM)....Pages 435-449
Constraint-Based Deployment of Distributed Components in a Dynamic Network....Pages 450-464
Comparative Analysis of Ad-Hoc Networks Oriented to Collaborative Activities....Pages 465-479
Fault Tolerant Time Synchronization for Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 480-493
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