The rapid advancements and stringent requirements of modern embedded computing
systems have led to a surge in the demand for customized processors that can efficiently …

Efficient design of embedded processors plays a critical role in embedded systems design.
Processor description languages and their associated specification, exploration and rapid …

The emergence of multimedia and high-speed networks has expanded the class of
applications that combine the timing requirements of hard real-time applications with the …

The extension of a given instruction-set with specialized instructions has become a common
technique used to speed up the execution of applications. By identifying computationally …

Considered a standard industry resource, the Embedded Systems Handbook provided
researchers and technicians with the authoritative information needed to launch a wealth of …

Over the last years, we have witnessed the increased use of Application-Specific Instruction-
Set Processors (ASIPs). These ASIPs are processors that have a customizable instruction …

Adaptation in embedded processing is key in order to address efficiency. The concept of
extensible embedded processors works well if a few a-priori known hot spots exist …

In recent years, increasing manufacturing density has allowed the development of Multi-
Processor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs). Application-Specific Instruction Set Processors …

We present the i-Core (Invasive Core), an Application Specific Instruction Set Processor
(ASIP) with a run-time adaptive instruction set. Its adaptivity is controlled by the runtime …

We are presenting a new concept of an application-specific processor that is capable of
transmuting its instruction set according to non-predictive application behavior during run …