Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering
Designing Socs With Configured Processors
Unleashing the Tensilica Diamond Cores Technology
Author:
Leibson, Steve
Isbn 13:
9780123724984
ISBN: 0123724988
Pub Date:
Jul 7, 2006
Publisher:
Academic Press
Shipping Weight: 1.90 pounds
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An essential, no-nonsense guide to the design of 21st-century mega-gate SOCs using nanometer silicon.Discusses todays key issues affecting SOC design, based on authors decades of personal experience in developing large digital systems as a design engineer while working at Hewlett-Packard's Desktop Computer Division and at EDA workstation pioneer Cadnetix, and covering such topics as an award-winning technology journalist and editor-in-chief for EDN magazine and the Microprocessor Report.Explores conventionally accepted boundaries and perceived limits of processor-based system design and then explodes these artificial constraints through a fresh outlook on and discussion of the special abilities of processor cores designed specifically for SOC design.Thorough exploration of the evolution of processors and processor cores used for ASIC and SOC design with a look at where the industry has come from, and where its going.Easy-to-understand explanations of the capabilities of configurable and extensible processor cores through a detailed examination of Tensilicas configurable, extensible Xtensa processor core and six pre-configured Diamond cores.The most comprehensive assessment available of the practical aspects of configuring and using multiple processor cores to achieve very difficult and ambitious SOC price, performance, and power design goals.
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