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Today more than 90% of all programmable processors are employed in embedded systems. This number is actually not surprising, contemplating that in a typical home you might find one or two PCs equipped with high-performance standard processors, and probably dozens of embedded systems, including electronic entertainment, household, and telecom devices, each of them equipped with one or more embedded processors. The question arises why programmable processors are so popular in embedded system design. The answer lies in the fact that they help to narrow the gap between chip capacity and designer productivity. Embedded processors cores are nothing but one step further towards improved design reuse, just along the lines of standard cells in logic synthesis and macrocells in RTL synthesis in earlier times of IC design. Additionally, programmable processors permit to migrate functionality from hardware to software, resulting in an even improved reuse factor as well as greatly increased flexibility.

The LISA processor design platform (LPDP) presented in Architecture Exploration for Embedded Processors with LISA addresses recent design challenges and results in highly satisfactory solutions. The LPDP covers all major high-level phases of embedded processor design and is capable of automatically generating almost all required software development tools from processor models in the LISA language. It supports a profiling-based, stepwise refinement of processor models down to cycle-accurate and even RTL synthesis models. Moreover, it elegantly avoids model inconsistencies otherwise omnipresent in traditional design flows.

The next step in design reuse is already in sight: SoC platforms, i.e., partially pre-designed multi-processor templates that can be quickly tuned towards given applications thereby guaranteeing a high degree of hardware/software reuse in system-level design. Consequently, the LPDP approach goes even beyond processor architecture design. The LPDP solution explicitly addresses SoC integration issues by offering comfortable APIs for external simulation environments as well as clever solutions for the problem of both efficient and user-friendly heterogeneous multiprocessor debugging.

Today more than 90% of all programmable processors are employed in embedded systems. The LISA processor design platform presented in this book addresses recent design challenges and results in highly satisfactory solutions, covering all major high-level phases of embedded processor design.

Foreword. Preface.

1: Introduction. 1. Processor Categories. 2. Advent of ASIPs in System-on-Chip Design. 3. Organization of this Book.

2: Traditional Asip Design Methodology. 1. Related Work. 2. Motivation of this Work.

3: Processor Models For Asip Design. 1. LISA Language. 2. Model Requirements of Tools. 3. Abstraction Levels. 4. Concluding Remarks.

4: Lisa Processor Design Platform. 1. Hardware Designer Platform. 2. Software Designer Platform. 3. System Integrator Platform. 4. Concluding Remarks.

5: Architecture Exploration. 1. From Specification to Implementation. 2. Architecture Exploration Using LISA. 3. Concluding Remarks.

6: Architecture Implementation. 1. The ICORE Architecture. 2. Architecture Generation from LISA. 3. Case Study. 4. Concluding Remarks.

7: Software Tools For Application Design. 1. Code Generation Tools. 2. Simulation. 3. Debugging. 4. Case Studies. 5. Concluding Remarks.

8: System Integration And Verification. 1. Platform-Based Design. 2. Enabling Platform-Based Design. 3. Software Simulator Integration. 4. Case Study: CoCentric System Studio. 5. Concluding Remarks.

9: Summary And Outlook. 1. Processor Modeling. 2. Architecture Exploration. 3. Software Development Tools. 4. Architecture Implementation. 5. Concluding Remarks.

Appendices: Abbreviations. Grammar of the LISA Language. Sample ARM7 LISA Model. The ICORE Architecture.

List of Figures. List of Examples. List of Tables. Bibliography. About the Authors.