This book presents a methodology and the associated tooling for enabling design space exploration as well as a successive refinement flow for the design of optimized MP-SoCs with a high degree of automation.

Modern Electronic System Level (ESL) techniques enable designers to effectively increase productivity. This book covers a key segment of ESL by modeling partially re-configurable processors via high-level Architecture Description Language.

The LISA processor design platform (LPDP) presented in Architecture Exploration for Embedded Processors with LISA addresses various design challenges. It addresses SoC integration issues by offering APIs for external simulation environments, as well as solutions for the problem of efficient and user-friendly heterogeneous multiprocessor debugging.

This book presents a methodology and the associated tooling for enabling design space exploration as well as a successive refinement flow for the design of optimized MP-SoCs with a high degree of automation.

New software tools and a sophisticated methodology above RTL are required to answer the challenges of designing an optimized application specific processor (ASIP). This book offers an integrated implementation flow and compares it to common implementation practice.