- Customizable Embedded Processors: Design Technologies and Applications
- Customizable processors have been described as the next natural step in the evolution of the microprocessor business: a step in the life of a new technology where top performance alone is no longer sufficient to guarantee market success. Other factors become fundamental, such as time to market, convenience, energy efficiency, and ease of customization. This book is the first to explore comprehensively one of the most fundamental trends...
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- Designing SOCs with Configured Cores : Unleashing the Tensilica Xtensa and Diamond Cores
- Designing SOCs with Configured Processor Cores is an essential reference for system-on-chip designers. This well-written book gives a practical introduction to three basic techniques of modern SOC design: use of optimized standard CPU and DSP processors cores, application-specific configuration of processor cores, and system-level design of SOCs using configured cores as the key building block. Readers will find it is often the first book...
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- Configurable Processors: What, Why, When, How
- A new type of processor core has been getting a lot of attention lately - a processor you can tailor for a specific application. Configurable processors are much faster and can do much more than standard embedded microprocessors. Some can even replace hand-coded RTL in ASICs and SOCs. What is a configurable processor? What can configurable processors do? Why would anyone want to use this type of processor? How can a configurable processor...
http://www.tensilica.com/products/WP_config.htm
- myCSoC: Design Explorations With Your Configurable System on a Chip
- Triscend Corp. has developed a configurable system on a chip (CSoC) that combines programmable logic with an 8032 microcontroller core in a single device. Application software runs in the 8032 with assistance from peripherals built with soft modules in the programmable logic. Combined with their FastChip development software, you can now design systems where both the software and hardware can be changed at a moment's notice.
http://www.xess.com/myCSoC-CDROM.html
- Express Logic ThreadX Available for Tensilica’s New Third-Generation Diamond Standard
- Tensilica, Inc. and Express Logic, Inc. today announced that Express Logic's ThreadX real-time operating system (RTOS) is now available for Tensilica's new third-generation Diamond Standard dataplane processor (DPU) cores. A free demo download of the ThreadX RTOS is available on the Tensilica web site at...Designed for small-footprint, demanding real-time control,...
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- Designers Guide to the Cypress PSoC
- This it the first technical reference book available on the PsoC, and it offers the most comprehensive combination of technical data, example code, and descriptive prose youll find anywhere. Embedded design expert Robert Ashby will guide you through the entire PsoC world, providing thorough coverage of device feature, design, programming and development of the software-reconfigurable PsoC. He shares his best tips, tricks techniques that...
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- Linux on Xtensa
- This portal is the primary resource for the community of developers and users of the Linux operating system on Xtensa processors. The Xtensa processor architecture is a configurable, extensible, and synthesizable 32-bit RISC processor core. Processor and SOC vendors can select from various processor options and even create customized instructions in addition to a base ISA to tailor the processor for a particular application. You have...
http://www.linux-xtensa.org/
- Paula Jones Tensilica Blog (Corporate Sponsored)
- All the news you're looking for from Tensilica, Inc. Find out how you can use Tensilica's configurable, extensible processors to speed your SOC design. Learn more about our XPRES compiler, which automates the creation of processors from your C code.
http://www.tensilica.blogspot.com/
- ARC International - White Papers
- ARChitect White Paper: ARChitect Processor Configurator is used by SoC designers to rapidly create customized ARC processor core designs optimized for specific applications. Customizing a Soft Microprocessor Core: This three-page white paper is a quick, easy introduction to user-customizable microprocessor technology and the ARCtangent-A4 processor. How to Reduce Time-to-Market for System-on-Chip Design: How can complex designs be achieved...
http://www.arc.com/documentation/whitepapers.html
- Processor Designs for Embedded Systems
- The IBM PC and the Macintosh, both launched around 1982, are the last well-known computer lines that were based on traditional CISC processors. That is a processor having a rich and diverse instruction set thanks to an internal read-only microprogram store for the control of its internal operation. In 1980, Patterson (UC Berkeley) and Hennessy (Stanford) proposed a different kind of computer processor, a simplified but efficiently...
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