Overview
- Design and customization of embedded on-chip processors is an essential part of SoC development
- ASIC and FPGA engineers have to understand processor architecture and implementation
- Understanding processor design options has become crucial for every digital design professional
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Processor Design 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. Co-processor and multi-core design approaches that deliver application-specific performance over and above that which is available from single-core designs are also described.
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Reviews
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“Editor Jari Nurmi’s proposal was to put together the first effective textbook aimed at the subject of processor design. The book comprises 21 chapters, written by a total of 45 contributing authors with backgrounds in both academic and industrial fields. … To summarize, this book offers a nice overview on the steps involved in designing a soft-processor, as well as a good perspective on past architectures and current trends in processor design.” (Ricardo Jasinski, The Computer Journal, Vol. 53 (1), 2010)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Jari Nurmi is Professor at Tampere University of Technology and his expertises lie in: DSP Processor Architecture, Network-on-Chip, Embedded System-on-Chip Design, Integrated Signal Processing and Digital Communication Circuits.
Jari Nurmi has edited one successful book for Springer.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Processor Design
Book Subtitle: System-On-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs
Editors: Jari Nurmi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5530-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5529-4Published: 27 June 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7385-3Published: 10 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5530-0Published: 26 July 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 526
Topics: Circuits and Systems, Processor Architectures, Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks, Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems, Computer System Implementation