This handbook, organized into four parts, provides the reader with a comprehensive and standalone overview of signal processing systems. It contains a comprehensive index for ease of use, and an extensive bibliography for further reading.

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 novel approach for Architecture Description Language (ADL)-based instruction-set description that enables the automatic retargeting of the complete software toolkit from a single ADL processor model.

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.

Customizable processors have been described as natural steps in the evolution of the microprocessor business. This book explores a trend to build methodologies to tailor-fit processors to the specific needs of different products. It addresses the goal of maintaining processors, at a cost comparable to that of maintaining a single processor.

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.

This comprehensive introduction to the design challenges of MPSoC platforms focuses on early space exploration and defines an iterative methodology to increase the abstraction level, enabling the evaluation of design decisions earlier in the design process.

This book introduces a novel design methodology which can significantly reduce the ASIP development effort through high degrees of design automation. It includes several design case studies with real life embedded applications.

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.