Building ASIPS: The Mescal Methodology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gries, Matthias (Editor), Keutzer, Kurt (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Engineering, general.

An increasing number of system designers are using ASIP’s rather than ASIC’s to implement their system solutions. Building ASIPs: The Mescal Methodology gives a simple but comprehensive methodology for the design of these application-specific instruction processors (ASIPs). The key elements of this...

Table of Contents:

• and Motivation
• and Motivation
• The MESCAL Methodology for Building ASIPs
• Judiciously Using Benchmarking
• Inclusively Identifying the Architectural Space
• Efficiently Describing and Evaluating the ASIPs
• Comprehensively Exploring the Design Space
• Successfully Deploying the ASIP
• Using Commercial Tools to Apply the MESCAL Methodology for Building ASIPs
• Designing and Modeling MPSoC Processors and Communication Architectures
• Commercial Configurable Processors and the MESCAL Approach.