A design process is presented for the selection of a set of instruction set extensions for the PowerPC 405 processor that is embedded into the Xilinx Virtex Family of FPGAs. The i...
Brian F. Veale, John K. Antonio, Monte P. Tull, S....
Reliability in embedded processors can be improved by control flow checking and such checking can be conducted using software or hardware. Proposed software-only approaches suffe...
Due to resource and power constraints, embedded processors often cannot afford dedicated floating-point units. For instance, the IBM PowerPC processor embedded in Xilinx Virtex-...
Ray C. C. Cheung, Dong-U Lee, Oskar Mencer, Wayne ...
Crosstalk effects degrade the integrity of signals traveling on long interconnects and must be addressed during manufacturing testing. External testing for crosstalk is expensive ...
Code size and energy consumption are critical design concerns for embedded processors as they determine the cost of the overall system. Techniques such as reduced length instructi...