Written by the world’s most prominent microprocessor design leaders from industry and academia, this book provides complete coverage of all aspects of complex microprocessor design: technology, power management, clocking, high-performance architecture, design methodologies, memory and I/O design, computer aided design, testing and design for testability. The chapters provide state-of-the-art knowledge while including sufficient tutorial material to bring non-experts up to speed. A useful companion to design engineers working in related areas.
1Ultra-low power processor design12Design of energy-efficient digital circuits313Clocked storage elements in digital systems574Static memory design895Large-scale circuit placement1216Energy-delay characteristics of CMOS adders1477High-performance energy-efficient dual-supply ALU design1718Binary floating-point unit design : the fused multiply-add dataflow1899Microprocessor architecture for yield enhancement and reliable operation20910How is bandwidth used in computers?23511High-speed IO design28912Processor core and low power SoC design for embedded systems311