VLIW Microprocessor Hardware Design offers you a complete guide to VLIW hardware design―providing state-of-the-art coverage of microarchitectures, RTL coding, ASIC flow, and FPGA flow of design. The book also contains a wide range of skills-building examples, all worked using Verilog, that equip you with a practical, hands-on tutorial for understanding each step in the VLIW microprocessor design process.

Demonstrates a top-down approach to digital VLSI design.

Provides a systematic overview of architecture optimization techniques.

Features a chapter on field-programmable logic devices, their technologies and architectures.

Includes checklists, hints, and warnings for various design situations.

Emphasizes design flows that do not overlook important action items and which include alternative options when planning the development of microelectronic circuits.

Introduces the subjects in a very concise format, providing just enough information for the reader to develop their first digital systems in VHDL

Book content based on 20 years of experience teaching the subject in undergraduate and graduate courses

Provides a design kit

Introduction to and recent Research in Synthesis and Optimization of FPGA Based Systems

Easily understandable introductive sections followed by comprehensive topics covering novel techniques including numerous examples from practical applications

Presents a number of practical designs based on the proposed models and methods for complete applications from such areas as data processing, combinatorial search, and recursive computations

Focuses on both hardware and software systems Treatment of FPGAs as computing vehicles rather than glue-logic or ASIC substitutes

Assembles broad set of models for exploiting FPGA parallelism

Demonstrates how to use and manage reconfiguration Broad set of case studies demonstrating how to use FPGAs in novel and efficient ways

Essential reading for computer professionals in the area as design and customization of embedded on-chip processors is an essential part of SoC development

ASIC and FPGA engineers have to understand processor architecture and implementation – and this book gives them an insight

Understanding processor design options has become crucial for every digital design professional