Embedded DSP Processor Design

This book provides design methods for Digital Signal Processors and Application Specific Instruction set Processors, based on the author's extensive, industrial design experience. Top-down and bottom-up design methodologies are presented, providing valuable guidance for both students and practicing design engineers.

Coverage includes design of internal-external data types, application specific instruction sets, micro architectures, including designs for datapath and control path, as well as memory sub systems. Integration and verification of a DSP-ASIP processor are discussed and reinforced with extensive examples.

Introduction to DSP and CPU; Finite length DSP; Architecture and Micro architecture design; Instruction set design ? part I; Instruction set design ? part II; ALU and Register file (RF); MAC (Multiplication and accumulation unit); Memory sub system and addressing unit; Control path; Design of tools for firmware programmers; Firmware design; Peripheral of DSP cores and processors; Accelerators; Advanced architecture ILP (Instruction level parallelism); Advanced architecture (On Chip multiple DSP cores); Design for integration; Review of the design flow and functional verification