Design of Energy-Efficient Application-Specific Instruction Set Processors

by Tilman Glökler

Foreword. Acknowledgements. About the Authors. Introduction. 2: Focus and Related Work. 2.1. Focus of this Work. 2.2. Previous Work. 2.3. Differences to Previous Work. 3: Efficient Low-Power Hardware Design. 3.1. Metrics of the Implementation and the Hardware Design Methodology. 3.2. Basics of Low-Energy Hardware Design. 3.3. Techniques to Reduce the Energy Consumption. 3.4. Concluding Remarks. 4: Application-Specific Processor Architectures. 4.1. Definitions of ASIP Related Terms. 4.2. ASIP Applications. 4.3. ASIP Design Space. 4.4. Critical Factors for Energy-Efficient ASIPs. 4.5. Concluding Remarks. 5: The ASIP Design Flow. 5.1. Example Applications. 5.2. Application Profiling and Partitioning. 5.3. Combined ASIP HW/SW Synthesis and Profiling. 5.4. Verification. 5.5. Concluding Remarks. 6: The ASIP Design Environment. 6.1. The LISA Language. 6.2. The LISA Design Environment. 6.3. Extensions to the LISA Design Environment. 6.4. Concluding Remarks. 7: Case Studies. 7.1. Case Study BVD-T Acquisition and Tracking. 7.2. Case Study Linear Algebra Kernels and Eigenvalue Decomposition. 7.3. Concluding Remarks. 8: Summary. ASIP Development Using LISA 2.0. A.1. The LISA 2.0 Language. A.2. Design Space Exploration. A.3. Design Implementation. A.4. Software Tools Generation. A.5. System Integration. A.6. Summary. Computational Kernels. B.1. The CORDIC Algorithm. B.2. FIR Filter. B.3. The Fast Fourier Transform. B.4. Vector/Matrix Operations. B.5. Complex EVD Using a Jacobi-like Algorithm. ICORE Instruction Set Architecture. C.1. Processor Resources. C.2. Pipeline Organization. C.3. Instruction Summary. C.4. Exceptions to the Hidden Pipeline Model. C.5. ICORE Memory Organization and I/O Space. C.6. Instruction Coding. Different ICORE Pipeline Organizations. ICORE HDL Description Templates. E.1. Generic Register File Entity. E.2. Generic Bit-Manipulation Unit. Area, Power and Design Time for ICORE. Acronyms. Bibliography.

256 pages, Paperback

First published February 29, 2004