A unique feature of this open access textbook is to provide a comprehensive introduction to
the fundamental knowledge in embedded systems, with applications in cyber-physical …

The growing rate of technology improvements has caused dramatic advances in processor
performances, causing significant speed-up of processor working frequency and increased …

Abstract Ein Alleinstellungsmerkmal dieses Open-Access-Lehrbuchs ist die umfassende
Einführung in das Grundlagenwissen über eingebettete Systeme mit Anwendungen in cyber …

Scratchpad Memory (SPM) has been widely adopted in various computing systems to
improve performance of data access. Recently, non-volatile memory technologies (NVMs) …

Hardware specialization is commonly used in datacenters to ameliorate the nearing end of
CMOS technology scaling. While offering superior performance and energy-efficiency …

Energy consumption and predictability are two important constraints in designing real-time
embedded systems and one of the recently proposed solutions for the energy consumption …

On-chip power consumption is one of the fundamental challenges of current technology
scaling. Cache memories consume a sizable part of this power, particularly due to leakage …

Multilevel spin toque transfer RAM (STT-RAM) is a suitable storage device for energy-
efficient neural network accelerators (NNAs), which relies on large-capacity on-chip memory …

We propose a lightweight scheme where the formation of a data block is changed in such a
way that it can tolerate soft errors significantly better than the baseline. The key insight …

Parallel applications are essential for efficiently using the computational power of a
Multiprocessor System-on-Chip (MPSoC). Unfortunately, these applications do not scale …