October 2004
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
17h 1m
English
In his book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, Harvard professor and author Clayton Christensen defines a “disruptive technology” as an innovation that establishes a new standard in product cost and accessibility [227]. Disruptive technologies gradually displace even successful market and technology leaders. Extensible processors, a disruptive technology for SoC-based design, combine the dramatic productivity of complete software programmability with the exceptional performance and efficiency of optimized RTL logic.
Measured by conventional criteria applied to PC processors, the configurable processor is pretty weak. In its un-extended configuration, it delivers only a few hundred MIPS of performance and runs ...
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