Design of Energy-Efficient Application-Specific Instruction Set Processors

• Main Authors: Glökler, Tilman (Author), Meyr, Heinrich (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2004.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Microprocessors.; Computer-aided engineering.; Electrical engineering.; Electronic circuits.; Electrical Engineering.; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design.; Circuits and Systems.; Processor Architectures.

After a brief introduction to low-power VLSI design, the design space of ASIP instruction set architectures (ISAs) is introduced with a special focus on important features for digital signal processing. Based on the degrees of freedom offered by this design space, a consistent ASIP design flow is pr...

Table of Contents:

• Focus and Related Work
• Efficient Low-Power Hardware Design
• Application-Specific Processor Architectures
• The ASIP Design Flow
• The ASIP Design Environment
• Case Studies
• Summary.