This textbook serves as an introduction to the subject of embedded systems design‎,‎ with emphasis on integration of custom hardware components with software‎.‎ The key problem addressed in the book is the following‎:‎ how can an embedded systems designer strike a balance between flexibility and efficiency‎?‎ The book describes how combining hardware design with software design leads to a solution to this important computer engineering problem‎.‎ The book covers four topics in hardware/software codesign‎:‎ fundamentals‎,‎ the design space of custom architectures‎,‎ the hardware/software interface and application examples‎.‎ The book comes with an associated design environment that helps the reader to perform experiments in hardware/software codesign‎.‎ Each chapter also includes exercises and further reading suggestions‎.‎ Improvements in this second edition include labs and examples using modern FPGA environments from Xilinx and Altera‎,‎ which will make the material in this book applicable to a greater number of courses where these tools are already in use‎.‎ More examples and exercises have been added throughout the book‎.‎‎"‎If I were teaching a course on this subject‎,‎ I would use this as a resource and text‎.‎ If I were a student who wanted to learn codesign‎,‎ I would look for a course that at least used a similar approach‎.‎ If I were an engineer or engineering manager who wanted to learn more about codesign from a very practical perspective‎,‎ I would read this book first before any other‎.‎ When I first started learning about codesign as a practitioner‎,‎ a book like this would have been the perfect introduction‎.‎‎"‎ ‎-‎-Grant Martin‎,‎ Tensilica‎-‎-

• Author‎:‎ Patrick R‎.‎ Schaumont
• Publisher‎:‎ Springer
• ISBN‎:‎ 9781461437369