Essential reading for computer professionals in the area as design and customization of embedded on-chip processors is an essential part of SoC development

ASIC and FPGA engineers have to understand processor architecture and implementation – and this book gives them an insight

Understanding processor design options has become crucial for every digital design professional

All along the book numerous examples of FPGA implementation are described

The circuits are modeled in VHDL

Complete and synthesizable source files are available at the author's web site www.arithmetic-circuits.org

It is not a book on Hardware Description Languages, and the reader is assumed to have a basic knowledge of VHDL

It is not a book on Logic Circuits either, and the reader is assumed to be familiarized with the basic concepts of combinational and sequential circuits

Describes a variety of methodologies for modern embedded systems design

Implements methodologies presented on FPGAs

Covers a wide variety of applications for reconfigurable embedded systems, including Bioinformatics, Communications and networking, Application acceleration, Medical solutions, Experiments for high energy physics, Astronomy, Aerospace, Biologically inspired systems and Computational fluid dynamics

The book describes design and implementations of FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays)/PSoC (Programmable Systems-on-Chip) hardware accelerators

Focus is on hardware accelerators for data/information processing and combinatorial optimization

The presented material will be supported by numerous practical examples with demonstration of the results using recent prototyping systems from Xilinx