Product category:
Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Tensilica
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 June 2006
Tensilica experts contribute to EDA
handbook
A two-book reference provides a comprehensive overview of the design automation algorithms, tools and methodologies used to design integrated circuits.
The new "Electronic design automation circuits handbook", edited by Grant Martin, Tensilica's Chief Scientist, Louis Scheffer of Cadence Design Systems and Luciano Lavagno of Cadence Berkeley Laboratories, is a two-book reference that provides a comprehensive overview of the design automation algorithms, tools and methodologies used to design integrated circuits Several of the chapters in this authoritative work were contributed by experts at Tensilica
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 Mar 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
Related stories
Top score posted for licensable processor core
Tensilica has announced that it has posted the highest score ever recorded for a licensable processor core, and the highest absolute score ever published for any processor on EEMBC.
Configurable processors enable latest DSL design
UpZide is to develop a reference design using multiple Xtensa LX processors from Tensilica to implement the VDSL2 standard.
Published by Taylor and Francis, the two-volume set is available from booksellers now.
The MSRP is $149.95.
Volume 1: "EDA for IC system design, verification, and testing", provides an overview of IC design and EDA, explaining system-level design, micro-architectural design, verification tools, and test methods.
Volume 2: "EDA for IC implementation, circuit design, and process technology", covers the classical RTL to GDS II design flow, including the synthesis, place, and route process in detail.
Steve Leibson, Tensilica's Technology Evangelist and former Editor-in-Chief of EDN and Microprocessor Report, contributed "Using performance metrics to select microprocessor cores for IC designs".
This chapter discusses the many performance factors that must be considered when selecting processor cores for SoC designs and the benchmark programs that can be used to compare the performance of processor cores.
The chapter includes a comprehensive history of computer benchmarking that stretches back to the invention of the modern electronic computer.
Sumit Gupta, Product Marketing Manager at Tensilica, cowrote the chapter "Parallelising High-level synthesis: a code transformational approach to high-level synthesis", with Rajesh Gupta of University of California, San Diego, and Gaurav Singh and Sandeep Shukla of Virginia Tech.
This chapter focuses on recent progress in co-ordinated compiler and high-level synthesis transformations that can yield efficient circuits.
It also describes recent developments in system-level modelling techniques and languages that attempt to raise the level of abstraction in the design process.
The book is available now from Amazon.com and other major booksellers.
• Tensilica: contact details and other news
• Email this article to a colleague
• Register for the free Electronicstalk email newsletter
• Electronicstalk Home Page
Search the Pro-Talk network of sites
