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Design of Energy-Efficient Application-Specific Instruction Set Processors (ASIPs)

By Tilman Glökler , Heinrich Meyr

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2004
ISBN
1402077300, 9781402077302
Open Library ID
OL8372879M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2829573 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
234\255
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

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 proposed: this design flow starts with a given application and uses incremental optimization of the ASIP hardware, of ASIP coprocessors and of the ASIP software by using a top-down approach and by applying application-specific modifications on all levels of design hierarchy. A broad range of real-world signal processing applications serves as vehicle to illustrate each design decision and provides a hands-on approach to ASIP design. Finally, two complete case studies demonstrate the feasibility and the efficiency of the proposed methodology and quantitatively evaluate the benefits of ASIPs in an industrial context.

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