Chapter 7. Automatic Instruction-Set Extensions
Laura Pozzi and Paolo Ienne
Modern synthesizable embedded processors can typically be customized in two different senses: on one side, they often have optional or parametrizable features (e.g., optional load/store units or variable-size register files); on the other side, they are prepared for extensions of the instruction-set with application-specific or domain-specific instructions. In Chapter 6, the authors have concentrated on an example of a commercially available customizable processor and have primarily discussed how the large design space corresponding to the various options and parameters can be explored automatically by a tool. Complementarily, in this chapter we focus on understanding the ...
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