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 …

Extensible processors, which combine programmability and efficiency, are emerging as a
promising approach in the field of embedded computing. Automated synthesis of custom …

Application-specific instruction set processors (ASIPs) extend the instruction set of a general
purpose processor by dedicated custom instructions (CIs). In the last decade, reconfigurable …

Automatic identification of custom instructions (CI) is the process of supporting the
programmer in choosing automatically beneficial parts of the application source code that …

Hardware specialization has received renewed interest recently as chips are hitting power
limits. Chip designers of traditional processor architectures have primarily focused on …

Reconfigurable computing system is emerging as an important computing system for
satisfying the present and future computing demands in performance and flexibility …

Synthesis of custom instruction processors from high-level application descriptions involves
automated evaluation of data-flow subgraphs as custom instruction candidates. A subgraph …

Processor templates are a well-established way to design for FPGA technology, easing the
task of implementation by reducing it to choosing a template and writing software for it–while …

The end of Dennard scaling leads to new research directions that try to cope with the
utilization wall in modern chips, such as the design of specialized architectures. Processor …

With the ability of customization for an application domain, extensible processors have been
used more and more in embedded systems in recent years. Extensible processors …