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This publication presents the most modern applications of field-programmable gate array devices (FPGAs) as deployed in the design of embedded systems. The coverage includes state-of-the-art material from both academia and industry on an wealth of topics.

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This book presents the methodologies and for embedded systems design, using field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices, for the most modern applications. Coverage includes state-of-the-art research from academia and industry on a wide range of topics, including applications, advanced electronic design automation (EDA), novel system architectures, embedded processors, arithmetic, and dynamic reconfiguration.

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Preface.- Widening the Memory Bottleneck by Automatically-Compiled Application-Specific Speculation Mechanisms.- Decimal Division using the Newton-Raphson Method and Radix-1000 Arithmetic.- Lifetime Reliability Sensing In Modern FPGAs.- Model-Based Performance Evaluation of Dynamic Partial Reconfigurable FPGAs.- Switch design for soft interconnection networks.- Embedded Systems Start-up under Timing Constraints on Modern FPGAs.- Run-Time Scalable Architecture for Deblocking Filtering in H.264/AVC - SVC Video Codecs.- CAPH: A Language for Implementing Stream-Processing Applications on FPGAs.- Compact Clefia Implementation on FPGAs.- A Systematic Method to Evaluate and Compare the Performance of Physical Unclonable Functions.

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