Embedded systems design with frontend compilers

Author

Alba, C. ; Carro, L. ; Lima, A. ; Suzim, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. de Engenharia Eletrica, Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

fYear

1996

fDate

7-9 Oct 1996

Firstpage

200

Lastpage

205

Abstract

We describe our research in the field of application specific instruction-set processors. We first show our approach to design integrated processors, and compare it to other approaches. We focus on the importance of the front-end compiler, which can lead to different optimization strategies. This approach is different from other published works, in the sense that the processor and all its architecture changes to optimize a system are defined only after the code it must execute is known, and not the other way around. We present the results of our system in some case studies, and we conclude by showing some results of a RISC used as a microcontroller

Keywords

real-time systems; RISC; application specific instruction-set processors; embedded systems design; front-end compiler; hardware software codesign; integrated processor design; microcontroller; optimization; research; Application specific processors; Computer aided instruction; Control systems; Electrical equipment industry; Embedded system; Feedback; Hardware; Industrial control; Optimizing compilers; Reduced instruction set computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors, 1996. ICCD '96. Proceedings., 1996 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

ISSN

1063-6404

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7554-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCD.1996.563558

Filename

563558