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1 online resource (xx, 320 pages) : illustrations |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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The Morgan Kaufmann series in systems on silicon |
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Morgan Kaufmann series in systems on silicon.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction to 21st-century SOC design -- 2. The SOC design flow -- 3. Xtensa architectural basics -- 4. Basic processor configurability -- 5. MPSOC system architectures and design tools -- 6. Introduction to diamond standard series processor cores -- 7. The diamond standard series 108Mini processor core -- 8. The diamond 212GP controller core -- 9. The diamond 232L CPU core -- 10. The diamond 570T superscalar CPU core -- 11. The diamond 330HiFi audio DSP core -- 12. The diamond 545CK DSP core -- 13. Using fixed processor cores in SOC designs -- 14. Beyond fixed cores -- 15. The future of SOC design. |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
Microprocessor cores used for SOC design are the direct descendents of Intels original 4004 microprocessor. Just as packaged microprocessor ICs vary widely in their attributes, so do microprocessors packaged as IP cores. However, SOC designers still compare and select processor cores the way they previously compared and selected packaged microprocessor ICs. The big problem with this selection method is that it assumes that the laws of the microprocessor universe have remained unchanged for decades. This assumption is no longer valid. Processor cores for SOC designs can be far more plastic than microprocessor ICs for board-level system designs. Shaping these cores for specific applications produces much better processor efficiency and much lower system clock rates. Together, Tensilicas Xtensa and Diamond processor cores constitute a family of software-compatible microprocessors covering an extremely wide performance range from simple control processors, to DSPs, to 3-way superscalar processors. Yet all of these processors use the same software-development tools so that programmers familiar with one processor in the family can easily switch to another. This book emphasizes a processor-centric MPSOC (multiple-processor SOC) design style shaped by the realities of the 21st-century and nanometer silicon. It advocates the assignment of tasks to firmware-controlled processors whenever possible to maximize SOC flexibility, cut power dissipation, reduce the size and number of hand-built logic blocks, shrink the associated verification effort, and minimize the overall design risk. An essential, no-nonsense guide to the design of 21st-century mega-gate SOCs using nanometer silicon. Discusses today's key issues affecting SOC design, based on author's 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 it's going. Easy-to-understand explanations of the capabilities of configurable and extensible processor cores through a detailed examination of Tensilica's 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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Embedded computer systems -- Design and construction.
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Systems on a chip -- Design and construction.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Electronics -- Circuits -- Integrated.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Electronics -- Circuits -- General.
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Embedded computer systems -- Design and construction.
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Systems on a chip -- Design and construction.
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Embedded computer systems -- Design and construction
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Systems on a chip -- Design and construction
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dissertations.
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Academic theses
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Leibson, Steve. Designing SOCs with configured cores. Amsterdam ; Boston : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, ©2006 0123724988 9780123724984 (DLC) 2006011723 (OCoLC)67840110 |
| ISBN |
9780080472454 (electronic bk.) |
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0080472451 (electronic bk.) |
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0123724988 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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9780123724984 |
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AU@ 000050898135 |
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AU@ 000051860234 |
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AU@ 000052942714 |
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AU@ 000054161938 |
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AU@ 000067104632 |
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CHNEW 001005008 |
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DEBBG BV039832092 |
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DEBBG BV042307494 |
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DEBBG BV043086645 |
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DEBSZ 355395118 |
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DEBSZ 367755785 |
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DEBSZ 422214752 |
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GBVCP 802276199 |
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HEBIS 291468357 |
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NZ1 12434672 |
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NZ1 14540138 |
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