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Foreword. Acknowledgements. About the Authors. I: Introduction. 2: Focus and Related Work. 2.1. Focus of this Work. 2.2. Previous Work. 2.3. Differences to Previous Work. 3: Efficient Low-Power Hardware Design. 3.1. Metrics of the Implementation and the Hardware Design Methodology. 3.2. Basics of Low-Energy Hardware Design. 3.3. Techniques to Reduce the Energy Consumption. 3.4. Concluding Remarks. 4: Application-Specific Processor Architectures. 4.1. Definitions of ASIP Related Terms. 4.2. ASIP Applications. 4.3. ASIP Design Space. 4.4. Critical Factors for Energy-Efficient ASIPs. 4.5. Concluding Remarks. 5: The ASIP Design Flow. 5.1. Example Applications. 5.2. Application Profiling and Partitioning. 5.3. Combined ASIP HW/SW Synthesis and Profiling. 5.4. Verification. 5.5. Concluding Remarks. 6: The ASIP Design Environment. 6.1. The LISA Language. 6.2. The LISA Design Environment. 6.3. Extensions to the LISA Design Environment. 6.4. Concluding Remarks. 7: Case Studies. 7.1. Case Study I: BVD-T Acquisition and Tracking. 7.2. Case Study II: Linear Algebra Kernels and Eigenvalue Decomposition. 7.3. Concluding Remarks. 8: Summary. A: ASIP Development Using LISA 2.0. A.1. The LISA 2.0 Language. A.2. Design Space Exploration. A.3. Design Implementation. A.4. Software Tools Generation. A.5. System Integration. A.6. Summary. B: Computational Kernels. B.1. The CORDIC Algorithm. B.2. FIR Filter. B.3. The Fast Fourier Transform. B.4. Vector/Matrix Operations. B.5. Complex EVD Using a Jacobi-like Algorithm. C: ICORE Instruction Set Architecture. C.1. Processor Resources. C.2. Pipeline Organization. C.3. Instruction Summary. C.4. Exceptions to the Hidden Pipeline Model. C.5. ICORE Memory Organization and I/O Space. C.6. Instruction Coding. D: Different ICORE Pipeline Organizations. E: ICORE HDL Description Templates. E.1. Generic Register File Entity. E.2. Generic Bit-Manipulation Unit. F: Area, Power and Design Time for ICORE. G: Acronyms. Bibliography.

After a brief introduction to low-power VLSI design, the design space of ASIP instruction set architectures (ISAs) is introduced with a special focus on important features for digital signal processing. Based on the degrees of freedom offered by this design space, a consistent ASIP design flow is proposed: this design flow starts with a given application and uses incremental optimization of the ASIP hardware, of ASIP coprocessors and of the ASIP software by using a top-down approach and by applying application-specific modifications on all levels of design hierarchy. A broad range of real-world signal processing applications serves as vehicle to illustrate each design decision and provides a hands-on approach to ASIP design. Finally, two complete case studies demonstrate the feasibility and the efficiency of the proposed methodology and quantitatively evaluate the benefits of ASIPs in an industrial context.