文档介绍：Processor Design
Processor Design
System-on-puting for ASICs and FPGAs
Edited by
Jari Nurmi
Tampere University of Technology
Finland
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To Pirjo, Lauri, Eero, and Santeri
Preface
When I started puting career by programming a PDP-puter
as a freshman in the university in early 1980s, I could not have dreamed
that one day I’d be able to design a processor. At that time, the freshmen
were only allowed to use PDP. Next year I was given the permission to use
the famous brand-new VAX-puter. Also, my new roommate at the
dorm had got one of the first puters, modore-64 which
we started to explore together. Again, I could not have imagined that
hundreds of times the processing power will be available in an everyday
embedded device just a quarter of century later.
Little by little I delved into the design of digital circuits, puter
architecture. I finally learned my lessons in RISC philosophy when I was
puter architecture classes in early 1990s according to the
famous groundbreaking book by Hennessy and Patterson. At that time, I
had already started to design processors, first some simple configurable fil-
ters and then straightforward DSP cores. The story continued in a number
of different kinds of design projects purely in academia, as academia-
industry coope