Embedded core processors are becoming a vital part of today's system-on-a-chip in the growing areas of telecommunications, multimedia and consumer electronics.

It is well known that embedded systems have to be implemented efficiently. This requires that processors optimized for certain application domains are used in e

Customizable processors have been described as the next natural step in the evolution of the microprocessor business: a step in the life of a new technology whe

The building blocks of today's and future embedded systems are complex intellectual property components, or cores, many of which are programmable processors. Tr

This book presents a novel approach for Architecture Description Language (ADL)-based instruction-set description that enables the automatic retargeting of the