Performance evaluation is a serious challenge in designing or optimizing reconfigurable instruction set processors. The conventional approaches based on synthesis and simulations a...
This paper presents a novel instruction encoding generation technique for use in architecture exploration for application specific processors. The underlying exploration methodolo...
Achim Nohl, Volker Greive, Gunnar Braun, Andreas H...
Abstract. An extensible and configurable processor is a programmable platform offering the possibility to customize the instruction set and/or underlying microarchitecture. Efficie...
Instruction set customization is an effective way to improve processor performance. Critical portions of application dataflow graphs are collapsed for accelerated execution on s...
Nathan Clark, Jason A. Blome, Michael L. Chu, Scot...
Designing instruction set processors and constructing their compilers are mutually dependent tasks. Piper is a high level synthesis tool of ADAS which controls the hardware-softwa...