Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 432 pages
- Published by: Newnes; Pap/Cdr edition September 7, 2005
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0750679123
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0750679121
-
Book Dimensions:
8.4 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
- Weighs: 1.8 pounds
Product Review
a great starting point that is nicely followed by using the supplied development tools. - William Wong, Staff Editor, Electronic News
The authors have done an great job blending practical information about embedded media processing with general information about signal processing. - Jon Titus, Senior Technical Editor, ECN
Book Description
A key technology enabling fast-paced embedded media processing developments is the high-performance, low-power, small-footprint convergent processor, a specialized device that combines the real-time control of a traditional microcontroller with the signal processing power of a DSP. This practical guide is your one-stop shop for understanding how to implement this cutting-edge technology.
You will learn how to:
* Choose the proper processor for an application.
* Architect your system to avoid problems at the outset.
* Manage your data flows and memory accesses so that they line up properly
* Make smart-trade-offs in portable applications between power considerations and computational performance.
* Divide processing tasks across multiple cores.
* Program frameworks that optimize performance without needlessly increasing programming model complexity.
* Implement benchmarking techniques that will help you adapt a framework to best fit a target application, and much more!
Covering the entire spectrum of EMP-related design issues, from easy-to-understand explanations of basic architecture and direct memory access (DMA), to in-depth discussions of code optimization and power management, this practical book will be an invaluable aid to every engineer working with EMP, from the beginner to the seasoned expert.
* Comprehensive subject coverage with emphasis on practical application
* Essential assembly language code included throughout text and on CD-ROM
* Many real-world examples using Analog's popular Blackfin Processor architecture
Reader Reviews
This book is a genious compilation of the Processors characteristic in depth and it toughes the obviously not direct visible problems in EMP. Understanding of Memory Architectures and the highly efficient DMA are key in designs where you want to combine real-time datastreams of Audio and Video plus a GUI and the connection to the internet. It explains very well the problems of such a system design, and how the Blackfin Processor solves those. Code optimization is a "Black Magic", where this book spends 45 pages for. This book directs you the way, but not the final solution. Additional the CD-ROM is filled with the full Development Software for the Blackfin. Fully functional after registration on the Analog Devices web site for ninety days. Also manuals for all Processors, Compiler, Simulator, Evaluation Boards and much more is on the CD. Worth, to have this book in your standard library. 5 Stars.
Comment | |
(Report this)
Search for books at
