Sierra documentation

Software Reference Manual – ver 9.4.1.pdf

How to implement Sierra in a computer system (Intel FPGA) is described in the book ”Advanced HW/SW Embedded System for Designers” (Amazon).

Publications:

Journals
Experiences with VHDL and FPGAs, Lennart Lindh, Johan Stärner, Joakim Adomat (former), Journal of Systems Architecture, vol 42, p97-104, Euromicro, January, 1996
Rapid Prototyping with VHDL and FPGAs, Lennart Lindh, Lecture notes in Computer Science 705, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 0-387-57091-8 or ISBN 3-540-57091-8, January, 1993
Conferences and workshops

Power and Energy Efficiency Evaluation for HW and SW Implementation of nxn Matrix Multiplication on Altera FPGAs, Abdelghani Renbi and Lennart Lindh, Embedded Systems Department, Jönköpings University, Sweden. FPGAworld 2009, ACM, Sweden, September 2009

Application Specific Real-Time Microkernel in Hardware, Susanna Nordström, Lennart Lindh, 14th IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference 2005, IEEE, Stockholm, June, 2005

Successful Prototyping of a Real-Time Hardware Based Terrain Navigation Correlator Algorithm, Andreas Löfgren, Filip Traugott, Kim Andersson, Lennart Lindh, Euromicro symposium on Digital System Design, IEEE, Belek, Turkey, September, 2004

A Comparison of Multiprocessor Real-Time Operating Systems Implemented in Hardware and Software, Tobias Samuelsson(external), Mikael Åkerholm, Peter Nygren, Johan Stärner, Lennart Lindh, International Workshop on Advanced Real-Time Operating System Services (ARTOSS), Porto, Portugal, July, 2003

Uniform Interprocess Communication interface for Hardware and, Peter Nygren, Lennart Lindh, International Workshop on Advanced Real-Time Operating System Services (ARTOSS), IEEE, Porto, Portugal, July, 2003

A Comparison of the RTU Hardware RTOS with a Hardware/Software RTOS, Jaehwan Lee (external), Karl Ingström(external), Anders Daleby (external), Tommy Klevin (external), Vincent John Mooney III (external), Lennart Lindh, ASP-DAC 2003 (Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 2003), p 6, Kitakyushu International Conference Center, Japan, Editor(s):Jaehwan Lee, Vincent John Mooney III, Karl Ingström, Anders Daleby, Tommy Klevin* and Lennart Lindh*, January, 2003

Energy Characterization of a RTOS Hardware Accelerator for SoCs, Raimo Haukilahti, Swedish System-on-Chip Conference, Falkenberg, Sweden, March, 2002

A Hardware and Software Monitor for High-Level System-on-Chip Verification, Mohammed El Shobaki, Lennart Lindh, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, IEEE, San Jose, CA, USA, March, 2001

Adding Flexibility and Real-Time Performance by Adapting a Single Processor Industrial Application to a Multiprocessor Platform, Leif Enblom (former), Lennart Lindh, Proceedings of the Ninth Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing, p 4, IEEE Computer Society, Mantova, Italy, February 7 – 9, 2001, February, 2001

Virtual Communication Bus with Hardware and Software Tasks in Real-Time System, Peter Nygren, Lennart Lindh, Proceedings for the work in progress and industrial experience sessions, p 3, 12th Euromicro conferance on Real-time systems, Editor(s):Peter Puschner,Iain Bate and Martin Törngren, June, 2000

Analysis of software- and hardwareinterrupt handling(with and without cache), Joakim Adomat (former), Lennart Lindh, Proceedings of the 3rd Design, Automation and Test Event, Paris, March, 2000

SARA Scalable Architecture for Real-Time Applications, Lennart Lindh, Tommy Klevin (external), Johan Furunäs (external), CAD & CG’99, Shanghai, China, December, 1999

Scalable Architecture for Real-Time Applications And Use of Bus-monitoring, Tommy Klevin (external), Lennart Lindh, Proc. 6th international conference on Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA’99), Hong Kong, China, December, 1999

Scalable Architecture for Real-Time Applications – SARA, Lennart Lindh, Tommy Klevin (external), Johan Furunäs (external), Swedish National Real-Time Conference SNART’99, Linköping, Sweden, August, 1999

Hardware Accelerator for Single and Multiprocessor Real-Time Operating Systems, Lennart Lindh, Johan Stärner, Johan Furunäs (external), Joakim Adomat (former), Mohammed El Shobaki, Seventh Swedish Workshop on Computer Systems Architecture, Chalmers, Göteborg, Sweden, June, 1998

A prototype for Inter Process Communication support, in hardware, Johan Furunäs (external), Joakim Adomat (former),Lennart Lindh, Peter Vörös (external), Johan Stärner, Euromicro Workshop on Real-Time Systems, Toledo, Spain, June, 1997

Real-Time Scheduling Coprocessor in Hardware for Single and Multiprocessor Systems, Johan Stärner, Johan Furunäs(external), Joakim Adomat (former), Lennart Lindh, Euromicro conference, September, 1996

Real-Time Kernel in Hardware RTU: A step towards deterministic and high performance real-time systems, Joakim Adomat(former), Johan Furunäs (external), Lennart Lindh, Johan Stärner, 8th Euromicro Workshop on Real-Time Systems, L´Aquila, Italy, June, 1996

From Single to Multiprocessor Real-Time Kernels in Hardware, Lennart Lindh, Johan Furunäs (external), Johan Stärner, IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, Chicago, USA, January, 1995 Experiences with VHDL and FPGAs, Lennart Lindh, Joakim Adomat (former), Johan Stärner, VHDL-Forum EUROPE, Nantes, France, January, 1995

FASTHARD Prototype – A Real-Time Kernel Implemented In One Chip,, Lennart Lindh, IEEE Press, Real-Time Workshop,, Oulu, Finland, January, 1993

FASTHARD – A Fast Time Deterministic Hardware Based Real-Time Kernel, Lennart Lindh, IEEE press, Real-Time Workshop, Athens, January, 1992 Measuring and Analysing Real-Time Kernel Performance, H. Berggren (external), (external), Lennart Lindh, Euromicro 92, Paris, France, January, 1992

Rapid Prototyping with VHDL, Design Experience, Lennart Lindh, EURO-VHDL 91, Stockholm, Sweden., January, 1991 FASTCHART – Idea and Implementation, Lennart Lindh, F. Stanischewski (external), IEEE Press, International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) Cambridge MIT, USA, January, 1991

FASTCHART – A Fast Time Deterministic CPU and Hardware Based Real-Time-Kernel, Lennart Lindh, F. Stanischewski(external), IEEE press, Real-Time Workshop, Paris, France, January, 1991   MRTC reports

4th FPGAworld CONFERENCE, Lennart Lindh, Vincent John Mooney III (external), MRTC report ISSN 1404-3041 ISRN MDH-MRTC-215/2007-1-SE, Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre, Mälardalen University, September, 2007

3rd FPGAworld CONFERENCE, Lennart Lindh, Vincent John Mooney III (external), MRTC report ISSN 1404-3041 ISRN MDH-MRTC-204/2006-1-SE, Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre, Mälardalen University, November, 2006 2nd

FPGAworld CONFERENCE, Lennart Lindh, Vincent John Mooney III (external), MRTC report ISSN 1404-3041 ISRN MDH-MRTC-188/2005-1-SE, Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre, Mälardalen University, September, 2005 Lennart Lindh and Christer Eriksson, Real-Time Systems, Opuscula, ISSN, Västerås
Lennart Lindh and Christer Eriksson, Real-Time Systems 2, Opuscula, ISSN 1400 – 5468 ISRN HEV-BIB-OP–19—SE, Västerås Technical reports

RTU94 – Real Time Unit 1994 – Reference Manual, Johan Furunäs (external), Johan Stärner, Lennart Lindh, Joakim Adomat(former), Technical Report, MRTC, January, 1995