Application Analysis Tools for ASIP Design Application Profiling and Instruction-set Customization /

• Main Authors: Karuri, Kingshuk (Author), Leupers, Rainer (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Microprocessors.; Electronic circuits.; Circuits and Systems.; Processor Architectures.

This book provides an overview of the recent advancements in cutting edge design automation tools for Application Specific Instruction-set Processor (ASIP) development. ASIPs are becoming increasingly common in many embedded System-on-Chip architectures due to their unique blend of flexibility and p...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The ASIP Design Space
• 3.Design Automation Tools for ASIP Design
• 4. Profiling for ASIP Design
• 5. Profiler: Design and Implementation
• 6. A Primer on ISA Customization
• 7. ISA Customization Design Flow
• 8. ISE Generation Algorithms
• 9. Increasing Data Bandwidth to ISEs through Register Clustering
• 10. Case Studies
• 11. Summary:Taking Stock of Application Analysis
• A. Post ISE Generation DFG Transformation Algorithms
• References
• Index.