Integrating Custom Instruction Specifications into C Development Processes
Jack Whitham and Neil Audsley
We describe a new approach for creating hardware description language (HDL) specifications for custom instructions, to form part of the instruction-set architecture (ISA) of an application specific instruction set processor (ASIP). Our approach integrates fully into the traditional C development process, binding tightly with software source code and simplifying the ASIP optimisation process. Our tool is also free software, facilitating its use in future research.
BibTex Entry
@inproceedings{Whitham2006,
author = {Jack Whitham and Neil Audsley},
booktitle = {Proc. Int. Workshop on Applied Reconfigurable Computing},
title = {Integrating Custom Instruction Specifications into C Development Processes},
year = {2006}
}