Application-Specific Instruction-Set Processors

Course content

After completing the module, the students know how to customize and optimize a processor architecture (instruction, data and task level parallelism). They are capable of implementing application-specific instruction set processors (ASIPs). They can implement arithmetic-oriented hardware extensions and know new development tendencies of processors, e.g., highly parallel processors and reconfigurable processors.

1. Introduction to Embedded Computer Architectures.
2. Fundamentals of Processor Design.
3. Application-Specific Instruction-Set Processor (ASIP). Customizable processors.
4. Computer Arithmetics: Hardware acceleration of complex arithmetic functions.
5. Reconfigurable Processor Architectures.
6.  Approximate and Stochastic Processor Architectures. 
7. Fault-Tolerant Processor Architectures.
8. Cryptographic Processor Architectures.
9. Neuromorphic Processor Architectures: AI Processor Architectures.