Publication detail

Embedded Firmware Development with Multi-Way Branching

DVOŘÁK, V.

Original Title

Embedded Firmware Development with Multi-Way Branching

Type

article in a collection out of WoS and Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

This paper proposes a technique of firmware development based on Multi-valued Decision Diagrams (MDDs). Evaluation of multiple-output Boolean functions is faster than the one using Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) and has a small memory footprint often required in embedded systems. A micro-programmed controller that firmware runs on is supposed to support multi-way branching in hardware, whose implementation is known. A novel heuristic technique of a sub-optimal multivalued MDD synthesis is presented and a specific condition for spatial efficiency of MDD-based firmware is derived. The method is illustrated on practical examples. It may be quite useful for development of embedded microcontroller firmware as well as for fast digital system simulation.

Keywords

Embedded firmware, decision diagrams,   iterative disjunctive decomposition, multi-valued functions, space complexity

Authors

DVOŘÁK, V.

RIV year

2008

Released

18. 4. 2008

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

Location

New York

ISBN

978-0-7695-3105-2

Book

Proc. of the 3rd Int. Coference on Systems

Pages from

317

Pages to

322

Pages count

6

URL

https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/8586/

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT30478,
  author="Václav {Dvořák}",
  title="Embedded Firmware Development with Multi-Way Branching",
  booktitle="Proc. of the 3rd Int. Coference on Systems",
  year="2008",
  pages="317--322",
  publisher="IEEE Computer Society",
  address="New York",
  isbn="978-0-7695-3105-2",
  url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/8586/"
}