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Engineering the Complex SOC: Fast, Flexible Design with Configurable Processors (Prentice Hall Modern Semiconductor Design Series)

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Engineering the Complex SOC: Fast, Flexible Design with Configurable Processors (Prentice Hall Modern Semiconductor Design Series)
Chris Rowen
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
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Customizable Embedded Processors: Design Technologies and Applications (Systems on Silicon)
Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chips (Systems on Silicon)
ESL Design and Verification: A Prescription for Electronic System Level Methodology (Systems on Silicon) (Systems on Silicon)
Designing SOCs with Configured Cores: Unleashing the Tensilica Xtensa and Diamond Cores (Systems on Silicon)
Reuse Methodology Manual for System-on-a-Chip Designs

ASIN: 0131455370

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Chip designers, managers, programmers, investors: READ THIS.......2004-07-09

Chris Rowen, CEO of Tensilica, has an exceptionally broad history of successful experience in VLSI chip design, verification, software, systems design, multiprocessor applications, and EDA tools. This book draws on the integration of those experiences to build an exciting new approach to designing high-performance, low-cost, low-power chips and concurrently, well-tuned software.

Investors and managers should read Chapters 1,2,3 which analyze the trends and issues in System-on-Chip design, and motivate the use of a new approach that combines extensible processors with powerful software to create software and hardware in parallel, faster, and with less engineering effort. They should also read Chapter 8, which makes insightful prognostications about a future in which many chips will have hundreds of CPUs, or more.

If those Chapters describe What's Happening, and Why We Must Change, Chapters 4-7 explore How to Do It, and should be read by both hardware and software engineers who build embedded systems. The real-world examples (from Tensilica) and advice offer strong support that this approach actually works.

Although it certainly promotes the Tensilica viewpoint, it is well-motivated, well-referenced to the last 20 years of computing research, and has good comparisons with other approaches, i.e., it is not just a commerical sales-pitch. The book is clearly written (modulo a few typos), and can be used by readers of varying depth of experience and knowledge.

Computers have improved drastically in the last two decades, but we humans have not improved in speed or memory, and we are limited in the number of things we can really grasp at once. Real computing breakthroughs happen when people invent cost-effective ways to raise the level of abstraction, so that our brains can ignore low-level details and focus on larger issues.

Increasing CPU performance enabled people to shift some work from assembly code, to higher-level languages like FORTRAN or C, to early scripting languages [like UNIX's shell and awk], and then to even higher-level languages like TCL, Perl, PHP, Python, etc. These have enabled large numbers of people to build their own Web-based applications. It is simply unimaginable that we'd have all those applications if people had nothing but assembler and C.

I think this book describes a similar kind of breakthrough, which drastically raises the level of abstraction in concurrent hardware/software design, to take advantage of the huge nubmers of transistors now available at low cost. This doesn't mean that other design approaches will disappear (just as C hasn't gone away), but I do believe the approach described here will find increasingly wide usage, and it will certainly change the landscape. Chris is an old colleage from MIPS and SGI, and I always appreciated his insights, and this book integrates them into a very useful whole.

Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

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Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
John P. Shen
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0070570647

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Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors is an exciting new first edition from John Shen of Carnegie Mellon University & Intel and Mikko Lipasti of the University of Wisconsin--Madison. This book brings together the numerous microarchitectural techniques for harvesting more instruction-level parallelism (ILP) to achieve better processor performance that have been proposed and implemented in real machines. Other advanced techniques from recent research efforts that extend beyond ILP to exploit thread-level parallelism (TLP) are also compiled in this book. All of these techniques, as well as the foundational principles behind them, are organized and presented within a clear framework that allows for ease of comprehension.

This text is intended for an advanced computer architecture course or a course in superscalar processor design. It is written at a level appropriate for senior or first year graduate level students, and can be used by professionals as well.

Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors, Beta Edition

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Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors, Beta Edition
John P. Shen , Mikko Lipasti , and John Shen
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
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Binding: Paperback

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Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors is an exciting new first edition from John Shen of Carnegie Mellon University & Intel and Mikko Lipasti of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This book brings together the numerous microarchitectural techniques for harvesting more instruction-level parallelism (ILP) to achieve better processor performance that have been proposed and implemented in real machines. These techniques, as well as the foundational principles behind them, are organized and presented within a clear framework that allows for ease of comprehension.

This text is intended for an advanced computer architecture course or a course in superscalar processor design. It is written at a level appropriate for senior or first year graduate level students.

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Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors, Beta Edition
John P. Shen; Mikko Lipasti; John Shen
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000QY5AZU

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MODERN PROCESSOR DESIGN
John Paul Shen
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N6F9O8

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Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors Global Economy

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Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors Global Economy
SHEN
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OGMNP0

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MODERN PROCESSOR DESIGN
JOHN P. SHEN
Manufacturer: MCGRAW-HILL EDUCATION - EUROPE
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5GNX0

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