Processor Design: System-On-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs

This book provides insight into a number of different flavors of processor architectures and their design, software tool generation, implementation, and verification. After a brief introduction to processor architectures and how processor designers have sometimes failed to deliver what was expected, the authors introduce a generic flow for embedded on-chip processor design and start to explore the vast design space of on-chip processing. The types of processor cores covered include general purpose RISC cores, traditional DSP, a VLIW approach to signal processing, processor cores that can be customized for specific applications, reconfigurable processors, protocol processors, Java engines, and stream processors. In addition, the book describes co-processor and multi-core design approaches that deliver application-specific performance over and above that which is available from single-core designs.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402055293
• ISBN13: 9781402055294
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 526 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"