Designing Embedded Processors [electronic resource] : A Low Power Perspective / edited by Jörg Henkel, Sri Parameswaran.

Application Specific Embedded Processors -- Application-Specific Embedded Processors -- Low-Power Design with NISC Technology -- Synthesis of Instruction Sets for High-Performance and Energy-Efficient ASIP -- A Framework for Extensible Processor Based MPSoC Design -- Design and Run Time Code Compression for Embedded Systems -- Embedded Memories -- Power Optimisation Strategies Targeting the Memory Subsystem -- Layer Assignment Techniques for Low Energy in Multi-Layered Memory Organizations -- Memory Bank Locality and Its Usage in Reducing Energy Consumption -- Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling -- Fundamentals of Power-Aware Scheduling -- Static DVFS Scheduling -- Dynamic DVFS Scheduling -- Voltage Selection for Time-Constrained Multiprocessor Systems -- Compiler Techniques -- Compilation Techniques for Power, Energy, and Thermal Management -- Compiler-Directed Dynamic CPU Frequency and Voltage Scaling -- Link Idle Period Exploitation for Network Power Management -- Remote Task Mapping -- Multi-Processors -- A Power and Energy Perspective on MultiProcessors -- System-Level Design of Network-on-Chip Architectures -- Power-Performance Modeling and Design for Heterogeneous Multiprocessors -- Reconfigurable Computing -- Basics of Reconfigurable Computing -- Dynamic Reconfiguration -- Applications, Design Tools and Low Power Issues in FPGA Reconfiguration.

As we embrace the world of personal, portable, and perplexingly complex digital systems, it has befallen upon the bewildered designer to take advantage of the available transistors to produce a system which is small, fast, cheap and correct, yet possesses increased functionality. Increasingly, these systems have to consume little energy. Designers are increasingly turning towards small processors, which are low power, and customize these processors both in software and hardware to achieve their objectives of a low power system, which is verified, and has short design turnaround times. Designing Embedded Processors examines the many ways in which processor based systems are designed to allow low power devices. It looks at processor design methods, memory optimization, dynamic voltage scaling methods, compiler methods, and multi processor methods. Each section has an introductory chapter to give a breadth view, and have a few specialist chapters in the area to give a deeper perspective. The book provides a good starting point to engineers in the area, and to research students embarking upon the exciting area of embedded systems and architectures.