Embedded Computing for High Performance

Preface

João M.P. Cardoso; José Gabriel F. Coutinho; Pedro C. Diniz

Over the last decades, computer users have enjoyed the benefits of a seemingly unbounded availability of transistors on a die, with every new microprocessor design exhibiting performance figures that dwarfed previous generations. Computing platforms evolved from a single processor core to general-purpose multicores and specialized cores, such as graphics processing units (GPUs), delivering unprecedented performance thanks to the high degree of parallelism currently available. More recently, energy efficiency has become a major concern, prompting systems to include custom computing engines in the form of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) and other forms of reconfigurable ...