Building ASIPs: The Mescal Methodology

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<P>An increasing number of system designers are using ASIPs rather than ASICs 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).</P><P>The key elements of this methodology are:</P><P>Judiciously using benchmarking</P><P>Inclusively identifying the architectural space</P><P>Efficiently describing and evaluating the ASIPs</P><P>Comprehensively exploring the design space</P><P>Successfully deploying the ASIP</P><P>This book includes demonstrations of applications of the methodologies using the Tipi research framework as well as state-of-the-art commercial toolsets from CoWare and Tensilica.</P>

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