Building ASIPs: The Mescal Methodology

An increasing number of system designers are using ASIP’s rather than ASIC’s to implement their system solutions. Building ASIPs: The Mescal Methodology gives a simple but comprehensive methodology for the design of these application-specific instruction processors (ASIPs). The key elements of this...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gries, Matthias, Keutzer, Kurt (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2005, 2005
Edition:1st ed. 2005
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • and Motivation
  • and Motivation
  • The MESCAL Methodology for Building ASIPs
  • Judiciously Using Benchmarking
  • Inclusively Identifying the Architectural Space
  • Efficiently Describing and Evaluating the ASIPs
  • Comprehensively Exploring the Design Space
  • Successfully Deploying the ASIP
  • Using Commercial Tools to Apply the MESCAL Methodology for Building ASIPs
  • Designing and Modeling MPSoC Processors and Communication Architectures
  • Commercial Configurable Processors and the MESCAL Approach