A key advantage of soft processors (processors built on an FPGA programmable fabric) over hard processors is that they can be customized to suit an application program's spec...
Peter Yiannacouras, J. Gregory Steffan, Jonathan R...
In this paper, we present a proposal for a UML profile called `Embedded UML'. Embedded UML represents a synthesis of various ideas in the real-time UML community, and concept...
This paper introduces the notion of a Flexible Instruction Processor (FIP) for systematic customisation of instruction processor design and implementation. The features of our app...
This paper describes a toolset, PACE, that provides detailed predictive performance information throughout the implementation and execution stages of an application. It is structur...
Darren J. Kerbyson, John S. Harper, Efstathios Pap...
Embedded systems consisting of the application program ROM, RAM, the embedded processor core and any custom hardware on a single wafer are becoming increasingly common in areas suc...