Customizable embedded processors [electronic resource] : design technologies and applications / Paolo Ienne, Rainer Leupers.

Customizable processors have been described as the next natural step in the evolution of the microprocessor business: a step in the life of a new technology where top performance alone is no longer sufficient to guarantee market success. Other factors become fundamental, such as time to market, conv...

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Main Author: Ienne, Paolo
Other Authors: Leupers, Rainer
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, Calif. : Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann, 2007.
Series:Morgan Kaufmann series in systems on silicon.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Business Opportunities: The Case of Wireless Applications
  • Logistic Challenges: Lofty Ambitions and Stark Realities of Customizing Processors
  • Architectural Description Languages
  • Retargetable Toolsets
  • Processor Configuration
  • Automatic Instruction-Set Extensions
  • Challenges to Automatic Customization
  • Toolset Support for Instruction-Set Extensions
  • Coprocessor Generation from Executable Code
  • Datapath Synthesis
  • Instruction Matching and Modelling
  • Processor Verification
  • Sub-RISC Processors
  • An ASIP for UMTS-FDD Cell Search
  • Hardware/software Trade-offs for Advanced 3G Channel Decoding
  • FPGA-Based Processor Implementation
  • Designing a H.264 Encoder with Real-World Tradeoffs.