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A VLIW Approach to Architecture, Compilers and Tools
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By
Joseph A. Fisher, HP Labs, Miami, Florida
Paolo Faraboschi, HP Labs, Barcelona, Spain
Cliff Young, D. E. Shaw Research and Development, L.L.C., New York, New York
Description
The fact that there are more embedded computers than general-purpose computers and that we are impacted by hundreds of them every day
is no longer news. What is news is that their increasing performance requirements, complexity and capabilities demand a new approach
to their design.
Fisher, Faraboschi, and Young describe a new age of embedded computing design, in which the processor is central,
making the approach radically distinct from contemporary practices of embedded systems design. They demonstrate why it is essential
to take a computing-centric and system-design approach to the traditional elements of nonprogrammable components, peripherals, interconnects
and buses. These elements must be unified in a system design with high-performance processor architectures, microarchitectures and compilers,
and with the compilation tools, debuggers and simulators needed for application development.
In this landmark text, the authors apply
their expertise in highly interdisciplinary hardware/software development and VLIW processors to illustrate this change in embedded computing.
VLIW architectures have long been a popular choice in embedded systems design, and while VLIW is a running theme throughout the book,
embedded computing is the core topic. Embedded Computing examines both in a book filled with fact and opinion based on the authors many
years of R&D experience.
Audience
embedded systems designers; system software developers; graduate students in computer science and computer engineering
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Embedded Processing
1.1 What is Embedded Computing?
1.2 Distinguishing Between Embedded and General
Purpose Computing
1.3 Characterizing Embedded Computing
1.4 Embedded market structure
1.5 Further Reading
1.6 Exercises
Chapter
2: An Overview of VLIW and ILP
2.1 Semantics and parallelism
2.2 Design philosophies
2.3 Role of the compiler
2.4 VLIW in the embedded
and DSP domains
2.5 Historical Perspective and Further Reading
2.6 Exercises
Chapter 3: An Overview of ISA Design
3.1 Overview: What
to Hide
3.2 Basic VLIW design principles
3.3 Designing a VLIW ISA for Embedded Systems
3.4 Instruction-Set Encoding
3.5 VLIW Encoding
3.6 Encoding and Instruction-Set Extensions
3.7 Further Reading
3.8 Exercises
Chapter 4: Architectural Structures in ISA design
4.1 The Datapath
4.2 Registers and Clusters
4.3 Memory Architecture
4.4 Branch Architecture
4.5 Speculation and Predication
4.6 System Operations
4.7 Further Reading
4.8 Exercises
Chapter 5: Microarchitecture Design
5.1 Register File Design
5.2 Pipeline
Design
5.3 VLIW Fetch, Sequencing and Decoding
5.4 The Datapath
5.5 Memory Architecture
5.6 Control Unit
5.7 Control Registers
5.8 Power Considerations
5.9 Further Reading
5.10 Exercises
Chapter 6: System Design and Simulation
6.1 System-on-Chip (SoC)
6.2
Processor Cores and System-On-Chip
6.3 Overview of Simulation
6.4 Simulating a VLIW architecture
6.5 System simulation
6.6 Validation
and verification
6.7 Further Reading
6.8 Exercises
Chapter 7: Embedded Compiling and Toolchains
7.1 What is important in an ILP
Compiler?
7.2 Embedded cross-development toolchains
7.3 Structure of an ILP compiler
7.4 Code Layout
7.5 Embedded-specific trade-offs
for compilers
7.6 DSP-Specific Compiler Optimizations
7.7 Further Reading
7.8 Exercises
Chapter 8: Compiling for VLIWs and ILP
8.1 Profiling
8.2 Scheduling
8.3 Register allocation
8.4 Speculation and Predication
8.5 Instruction selection
8.6 Further Reading
8.7 Exercises
Chapter 9: The Run-time System
9.1 Exceptions, interrupts, and traps
9.2 Application Binary Interface considerations
9.3 Code Compression
9.4 Embedded Operating Systems
9.5 Multiprocessing and Multithreading
9.6 Further Reading
9.7 Exercises
Chapter 10: Application Design and Customization
10.1 Programming Language choices
10.2 Performance, Benchmarking and Tuning
10.3
Scalability and Customizability
10.4 Further Reading
10.5 Exercises
Chapter 11: Application Areas
11.1 Digital Printing and Imaging
11.2 Telecom applications
11.3 Other application areas
11.4 Further Reading
11.5 Exercises
Appendix A: The VEX System
Appendix
B: Glossary
Appendix C: Bibliography
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Hardbound, 712 pages, publication date: DEC-2004
ISBN-13: 978-1-55860-766-8
ISBN-10: 1-55860-766-8
Imprint: MORGAN KAUFFMAN
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