Tensilica employees have written or contributed to a number of excellent books about processor-based design, design automation and verification. Here are some of the best.
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Processor and SOC Simulation Published by Springer Chapter 18: Configurable, Extensible Processor System Simulation by Grant Martin, Nenad Nedeljkovic, and David Heine |
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ESL Models and Their Application Published by Springer Chapter 6: Processor-Centric Design: Processors, Multiprocessors, Software |
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Hardware-dependent Software Published by Springer Chapter 7: Generation and Use of an ASIP Software Tool Chain by Sterling Augustine, Marc Gauthier, Steve Leibson, Peter Macleish, Grant Martin, Dror Maydan, Nenad Nedeljkovic and Bob Wilson |
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Processor Description Languages Published by Morgan Kaufmann Chapter 8: TIE: An ADL for Designing Application-specific Instruction Set Extensions by Himanshu A. Sanghavi and Nupur B. Andrews |
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Intellectual Property for Electronic Systems: An Essential Introduction Published by International Engineering Consortium ISBN: 1-931695-57-1 Chapter 18: Case Study, Multiformat Video Decoder IP Design Based on Configurable and Extensible Processor IP |
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Closing the Power Gap Between ASIC & Custom Published by Springer - Order now. Chapter 5 |
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Designing Embedded Processors: A Published by Springer Chapter 17 |
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Processor Design: System-On-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs Published by Springer Chapter 3 Chapter 8 |
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ESL Design and Verification: A Prescription for Electronic System Level Methodology Published by Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN: 978-0-12-373551-5; Published: March 2007 |
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High-Performance Embedded Computing: Architectures, Applications, and Methodologies Published by Morgan Kaufmann, Order now from Morgan Kaufmann Chapter by Chris Rowen. |
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Designing SOCS with Configured Cores: Unleashing the Tensilica Diamond Cores Technology Published by Elsevier. ISBN: 0-12-372498-8; Published: July 2006 |
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Customizable Embedded Processors: Design Technologies and Applications Published by Elsevier. ISBN: 0-12-369526-0; Published: July 2006 Chapter by David Goodwin, Steve Leibson and Grant Martin |
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Platform Based Design at the Electronic System Level Published by Springer. ISBN: 1-4020-5137-9 Published: July 2006 Chapter by Grant Martin |
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Advanced Signal Processing, Circuits, and System Design Techniques for Communications Published by IEEE. ISBN: 1-4244-0460-6. IEEE Cat. No: 06TH8891; Published May 2006 Available for Euro 59 from iscas06@ieee.org "Extensible and Configurable Processors for SoC Design" chapter by Jari Nurmi, Steve Leibson, Fabio Campi and Christian Panis. |
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Electronic Design Automation Circuits Handbook Published by Taylor & Francis CRC Press. ISBN: 0849330963; Published: April 2006 Order now from Taylor & Francis CRC More information about this book. Includes chapters by Steve Leibson and Sumit Gupta. |
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The Functional Verification of Electronic Systems Published by International Engineering Consortium. ISBN: 978-1-931695-31-8; Published: 2005 Chapter 18: Functional Verification of Configurable Embedded Processors by Dhanendra Jani, Chris Benson, Ashish Dixit and Grant Martin |
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Building ASIPs: The Mescal Methodology Published by Springer. ISBN: 0-387-26057-9; Published: 2005 Includes chapters by Steve Leibson and Grant Martin |
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Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chips Published by Elsevier - Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN: 0-12-385251-X; Published: Sep 2004 Includes chapter by Chris Rowen. |
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Engineering the Complex SOC: Fast, Flexible Design with Configurable Processors By Chris Rowen, Steve Leibson Published by Prentice Hall PTR. Order now from Prentice Hall PTR Get Authorized Chinese Translation from China Machine Press. |