Customizable embedded processors : design technologies and applications

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Ienne, Paolo
Other Authors Leupers, Rainer
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published San Francisco, Calif. : Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann, 2007.
SeriesMorgan Kaufmann series in systems on silicon.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780080490984
0080490980
0123695260
9780123695260
1281005363
9781281005366
9786611005368
6611005366
0123746450
9780123746450
Physical Description1 online resource (xxviii, 497 pages) : illustrations

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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.