Soft-core processors exploit the flexibility of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to allow a system designer to customize the processor to the needs of a target application....
Franjo Plavec, Blair Fort, Zvonko G. Vranesic, Ste...
This paper describes our experience to date and current plans for a senior-level microelectronics laboratory course on hardware/software codesign. The course utilizes an open-sour...
Roger D. Chamberlain, John W. Lockwood, Saurabh Ga...
Due to the continuously decreasing cost of FPGAs, they have become a valid implementation platform for SOCs. Typically, a soft core processor implementation is used to execute the ...
Performance of applications can be boosted by executing application-specific Instruction Set Extensions (ISEs) on a specialized hardware coupled with a processor core. Many commer...
Partha Biswas, Sudarshan Banerjee, Nikil D. Dutt, ...