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Unleashing the Tensilica Xtensa and Diamond Cores
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By
Steve Leibson, Technology Evangelist, Tensilica, Inc, Santa Clara, CA, USA
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Systems on Silicon,
Description
Microprocessor cores used for SOC design are the direct descendents of Intel's original 4004 microprocessor. Just as packaged microprocessor
ICs vary widely in their attributes, so do microprocessors packaged as IP cores. However, SOC designers still compare and select processor
cores the way they previously compared and selected packaged microprocessor ICs. The big problem with this selection method is that it
assumes that the laws of the microprocessor universe have remained unchanged for decades. This assumption is no longer valid.
Processor
cores for SOC designs can be far more plastic than microprocessor ICs for board-level system designs. Shaping these cores for specific
applications produces much better processor efficiency and much lower system clock rates. Together, Tensilica's Xtensa and Diamond processor
cores constitute a family of software-compatible microprocessors covering an extremely wide performance range from simple control processors,
to DSPs, to 3-way superscalar processors. Yet all of these processors use the same software-development tools so that programmers familiar
with one processor in the family can easily switch to another.
This book emphasizes a processor-centric MPSOC (multiple-processor SOC)
design style shaped by the realities of the 21st-century and nanometer silicon. It advocates the assignment of tasks to firmware-controlled
processors whenever possible to maximize SOC flexibility, cut power dissipation, reduce the size and number of hand-built logic blocks,
shrink the associated verification effort, and minimize the overall design risk.
Audience
PRIMARY: Industry practitioners; System-on-Chip engineers designing embedded systems.
SECONDARY: Text for undergraduate and graduate level courses on Embedded Systems.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to 21st-century SOC design
Chapter 2: The SOC design flow
Chapter 3: Xtensa architectural basics
Chapter 4:
Basic processor configurability
Chapter 5: MPSOC system architectures and design tools
Chapter 6: Introduction to Diamond cores
Chapter
7: The Diamond 108Mini controller core
Chapter 8: The Diamond 212GP controller core
Chapter 9: The Diamond 232L CPU core
Chapter 10:
The Diamond 570T superscalar CPU core
Chapter 11: The Diamond 330HiFi superscalar audio DSP Core
Chapter 12: The Diamond 545CK superscalar
DSP Core
Chapter 13: Using fixed processor cores in SOC systems
Chapter 14: Beyond fixed cores
Chapter 15: The future of SOC design
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Hardbound, 344 pages, publication date: JUL-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-372498-4
ISBN-10: 0-12-372498-8
Imprint: MORGAN KAUFFMAN
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