You're reading from Architecting and Building High-Speed SoCs Design, develop, and debug complex FPGA based systems-on-chip

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801810999

Length 426 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

FPGA

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Mounir Maaref

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Fundamentals and the Main Features of High-Speed SoC and FPGA Designs

2. Chapter 1: Introducing FPGA Devices and SoCs FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: FPGA Devices and SoC Design Tools

4. Chapter 3: Basic and Advanced On-Chip Busses and Interconnects

5. Chapter 4: Connecting High-Speed Devices Using Buses and Interconnects

6. Chapter 5: Basic and Advanced SoC Interfaces

7. Part 2: Implementing High-Speed SoC Designs in an FPGA

8. Chapter 6: What Goes Where in a High-Speed SoC Design

9. Chapter 7: FPGA SoC Hardware Design and Verification Flow

10. Chapter 8: FPGA SoC Software Design Flow

11. Chapter 9: SoC Design Hardware and Software Integration

12. Part 3: Implementation and Integration of Advanced High-Speed FPGA SoCs

13. Chapter 10: Building a Complex SoC Hardware Targeting an FPGA

14. Chapter 11: Addressing the Security Aspects of an FPGA-Based SoC

15. Chapter 12: Building a Complex Software with an Embedded Operating System Flow

16. Chapter 13: Video, Image, and DSP Processing Principles in an FPGA and SoCs

17. Chapter 14: Communication and Control Systems Implementation in FPGAs and SoCs

18. Index

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