The book by Christophe Bobda, however, has also been written for people with a software background, substantially reducing the educational leap by bridging the gap. His book has the potential to become a best-seller and to stimulate the urgently needed transformation of the software developer populations mind set, by playing a similar role as known from the famous historic Mead-&-Conway textbook for the VLSI design revolution.
Reiner Hartenstein, IEEE fellow,
Professor, TU Kaiserslautern "
Introduction to Reconfigurable Computing provides a comprehensive study of the field Reconfigurable Computing. It provides an entry point to the novice willing to move in the research field reconfigurable computing, FPGA and system on programmable chip design. The book can also be used as teaching reference for a graduate course in computer engineering, or as reference to advance electrical and computer engineers. It provides a very strong theoretical and practical background to the field of reconfigurable computing, from the early Estrins machine to the very modern architecture like coarse-grained reconfigurable device and the embedded logic devices. Apart from the introduction and the conclusion, the main chapters of the book are Architecture of reconfigurable systems, Design and implementation, High-Level Synthesis for Reconfigurable Devices, Temporal placement, On-line and Dynamic Interconnection, Designing a reconfigurable application on Xilinx Virtex FPGA, System on programmable chip, Applications.
About the Author
Dr. Christophe Bobda is Associate Professor in the Department of Computing Science at Kaiserslautern University of Technology in Germany