Customizable Embedded Processors: Design Technologies and Applications

Part - 1: Opportunities and Challenges From Prêt a Porter to Tailor made Paolo Lenne and Rainer Leupers Opportunities for Application-Specific Processors: The Case of Wireless Communications Gerd Ascheid and Heinrich Meyr Customizing Processors: Lofty Ambitions, Stark realities Joseph A. Fisher, Paolo Faraboschi, and Cliff Young Part - 2: Aspects of Processor Customization Architecture Description Language Languages Prabhat Mishra and Nikil Dutt C Compiler Retargeting Rainer Leupers Automated Processor Configuration and Instruction Extension David Goodwin, Steve Leibson, and Grant Martin Automatic Instruction Set Extensions Laura Pozzi and Paolo Lenne Challenges to Automatic Customization Nigel Topham Coprocessor Generation from Executable Code Richard Taylor and David Stewart Datapath Synthesis Philip Brisk and Majid Sarrafzadeh Instruction Matching and Modeling Sri Parameswaran, Jorg Henkel, and Newton Cheung Processor Verification Daniel Grobe, Robert Siegmund, and Rolf Drechsler Sub RISC Processors Andrew Mihal, Scott Weber, and Kurt Keutzer Part - 3: Case Studies Application Specific Instruction set Processor for UMTS-FDD Cell Search Kimmo Puusaari, Timo Yli Pietila, and Kim Rounioja Hardware/Software tradeoffs for Advanced 3 g Channel Decoding Daniel Schmidt and Norbert When Application Code Profiling and ISA Synthesis on MIPS32 Rainer Leupers Designing soft Processors for FPGAs Goran Bilski, Sundararajarao Mohan, and Ralph Wittig Chapter References Bibliography Index