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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.

Processor Description Languages
Edited by Prabhat Mishra and Mikil Dutt

Published by Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN: 978-0-12-374287-2
Published: May 2008

Chapter 8: TIE: An ADL for Designing Application-specific Instruction Set Extensions by Himanshu A. Sanghavi and Nupur B. Andrews

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Closing the Power Gap book

Closing the Power Gap Between ASIC & Custom
Tools and Techniques for Low Power Design
Editor David Chinnery
Editor Kurt Keutzer

Published by Springer - Order now.
ISBN: 978-0-387-25763-1
Published: 2007

Chapter 5
Methodology to Optimize Energy of Computation for SOCs
by Jagesh Sanghavi and Eliot Gerstner

Designing Embedded Processors

Designing Embedded Processors: A
Low Power Perspective

Editor Jorg Henkel
Editor Sri Parameswaran

Published by Springer
ISBN: 978-1-4020-5868-4
Published: August 2007

Chapter 17
A Power and Energy Perspective
on Multi-Processor
By Grant Martin

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Processor Design

Processor Design: System-On-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs
Editor Jari Nurmi

Published by Springer
ISBN: 978-1-4020-5529-4 (HB)
ISBN: 978-1-4020-5530-0 (e-book)
Published: 2007

Chapter 3
Beyond the Valley of the Lost Processors: Problems, Fallacies, and Pitfalls in Processor Design
By Grant Martin and Steve Leibson

Chapter 8
Customizable Processors and Processor Customization
By Steve Leibson

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ESL Design and Verification: A Prescription for Electronic System Level Methodology
by Brian Bailey, Grant Martin (from Tensilica) and Andrew Piziali

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
By Wayne Wolf

Published by Morgan Kaufmann,
ISBN: 0-12-369485X; Published: September 2006

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Chapter by Chris Rowen.

Designing SOCS with Configured Cores: Unleashing the Tensilica Diamond Cores Technology
By Steve Leibson

Published by Elsevier. ISBN: 0-12-372498-8; Published: July 2006

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Customizable Embedded Processors: Design Technologies and Applications
by Paolo Ienne and Rainer Leupers

Published by Elsevier. ISBN: 0-12-369526-0; Published: July 2006

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Chapter by David Goodwin, Steve Leibson and Grant Martin

Platform Based Design at the Electronic System Level
by Mark Burton and Adam Morawiec

Published by Springer. ISBN: 1-4020-5137-9 Published: July 2006

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Chapter by Grant Martin

Advanced Signal Processing, Circuits, and System Design Techniques for Communications
Edited by: V. Paliouras, Th. Stouraitis, and A. Ioinovici

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.

Electronic Design Automation Circuits Handbook
By Luciano Lavagno, Grant Martin and Louis Scheffer

Published by Taylor & Francis CRC Press. ISBN: 0849330963; Published: April 2006

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Includes chapters by Steve Leibson and Sumit Gupta.

The Functional Verification of Electronic Systems
By Brian Bailey

Published by International Engineering Consortium. ISBN: 978-1-931695-31-8; Published: 2005

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Chapter 18: Functional Verification of Configurable Embedded Processors by Dhanendra Jani, Chris Benson, Ashish Dixit and Grant Martin

Building ASIPs: The Mescal Methodology
By Matthias Gries and Kurt Keutzer

Published by Springer. ISBN: 0-387-26057-9; Published: 2005

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Includes chapters by Steve Leibson and Grant Martin

Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chips
by Ahmed Jerraya and Wayne Wolf

Published by Elsevier - Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN: 0-12-385251-X; Published: Sep 2004

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Includes chapter by Chris Rowen.

Engineering the Complex SOC: Fast, Flexible Design with Configurable Processors
By Chris Rowen, Steve Leibson

Published by Prentice Hall PTR.
ISBN: 0131455370; Published: June 2004

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Get Authorized Chinese Translation from China Machine Press.

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SOC book
RECOGNITION
Red herring top 100
Portable Design 2006 Editor's  Choice Award
Best Processor Cores of 2004
EDN's Hot 100 Products of 2006
QUOTABLE

“It is faster and easier to design complex SOCs using Xtensa configurable processors - especially when using the XPRES Compiler - than to hand-code complex SOC design elements in hardware using traditional RTL methods. Plus the Xtensa processors are programmable, so it will be valuable for future products and applications.”

- Katsuhiko Nishizawa, general manager of the IJP Design Department of the Imaging Products Operations Division of Seiko Epson Corporation.