A novel design methodology for the implementation of control units for application specific instruction set processors (ASIPS) is described. This methodology uses automatic instruction encoding and semi-automatic generation of the hardware instruction decoder to speed up the ASIP design. Significant power savings due to optimized instruction encoding are achieved. Results for ICORE (ISS-Core), which is an ASIP for digital video broadcasting algorithms of Infineon Technologies, demonstrate the efficiency and applicability of this approach
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Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2001. Proceedings. (ICASSP '01). 2001 IEEE International Conference on
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Date of Conference: 2001