Designing SOCs with Configured Cores

Acknowledgements

First and foremost, I thank Pat and Shaina, my wife and daughter, for putting up with me once more while I write yet another book.

Next, I thank Steve Roddy who originally conceived of this book and for allowing me the time to write it.

Thanks to the entire team at Tensilica for making a new way to design SOCs possible in the first place. A large number of people have contributed to Tensilica’s ability to revolutionize SOC design. First and foremost is Chris Rowen who is Tensilica’s founder, CEO, and president. Rowen has been involved with RISC microprocessors essentially since day one. He was a graduate student under John Hennesy during the early academic development of the MIPS-I RISC microprocessor at Stanford and he went ...