Architecture Exploration for Embedded Processors with Lisa

ISBN-13: 9781402073380 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 230 str.

Andreas Hoffmann; Heinrich Meyr; Rainer Leupers

Opis

Already today more than 90% of all programmable processors are employed in embedded systems. This number is actually not surprising, contemplating that in a typical home you might find one or two PCs equipped with high of embedded systems, performance standard processors, but probably dozens including electronic entertainment, household, and telecom devices, each of them equipped with one or more embedded processors. Moreover, the elec tronic components of upper-class cars incorporate easily over one hundred pro cessors. Hence, efficient embedded processor design is certainly an area worth looking at. The question arises why programmable processors are so popular in embed ded system design. The answer lies in the fact that they help to narrow the gap between chip capacity and designer productivity. Embedded processors cores are nothing but one step further towards improved design reuse, just along the lines of standard cells in logic synthesis and macrocells in RTL synthesis in earlier times of IC design. Additionally, programmable processors permit to migrate functionality from hardware to software, resulting in an even improved reuse factor as well as greatly increased flexibility."

Spis treści

Foreword. Preface. 1: Introduction. 1. Processor Categories. 2. Advent of ASIPs in System-on-Chip Design. 3. Organization of this Book. 2: Traditional Asip Design Methodology. 1. Related Work. 2. Motivation of this Work. 3: Processor Models For Asip Design. 1. LISA Language. 2. Model Requirements of Tools. 3. Abstraction Levels. 4. Concluding Remarks. 4: Lisa Processor Design Platform. 1. Hardware Designer Platform. 2. Software Designer Platform. 3. System Integrator Platform. 4. Concluding Remarks. 5: Architecture Exploration. 1. From Specification to Implementation. 2. Architecture Exploration Using LISA. 3. Concluding Remarks. 6: Architecture Implementation. 1. The ICORE Architecture. 2. Architecture Generation from LISA. 3. Case Study. 4. Concluding Remarks. 7: Software Tools For Application Design. 1. Code Generation Tools. 2. Simulation. 3. Debugging. 4. Case Studies. 5. Concluding Remarks. 8: System Integration And Verification. 1. Platform-Based Design. 2. Enabling Platform-Based Design. 3. Software Simulator Integration. 4. Case Study: CoCentric System Studio. 5. Concluding Remarks. 9: Summary And Outlook. 1. Processor Modeling. 2. Architecture Exploration. 3. Software Development Tools. 4. Architecture Implementation. 5. Concluding Remarks. Appendices: Abbreviations.Grammar of the LISA Language. Sample ARM7 LISA Model. The ICORE Architecture. List of Figures. List of Examples. List of Tables. Bibliography. About the Authors.

O autorze

Andreas Hoffmann, geboren 1955, lebt in Berlin. Buchveröffentlichungen.