Over the past few years, the realm of embedded systems has expanded to include a wide
variety of products, ranging from digital cameras, to sensor networks, to medical imaging …

Heterogeneous reconfigurable systems provide drastically higher performance and lower
power consumption than traditional CPU-centric systems. Moreover, they do it at much lower …

Reconfigurable computing is an expanding field that, during the last decades, has evolved
from a relatively closed community, where hard skilled developers deployed high …

The extension of a given instruction-set with specialized instructions has become a common
technique used to speed up the execution of applications. By identifying computationally …

For a design to survive unforeseen physical effects like aging, temperature variation, and/or
emergence of new application standards, adaptability needs to be supported. Adaptability …

According to the granularity of configuration, reconfigurable systems are classified in two
categories, which are the fine-and coarse-grain ones. The purpose of this chapter is to study …

Over the last years, we have witnessed the increased use of Application-Specific Instruction-
Set Processors (ASIPs). These ASIPs are processors that have a customizable instruction …

Current trends in high performance computing show, that the usage of multiprocessor
systems on chip are one approach for the requirements of computing intensive applications …

High-speed Internet protocol security (IPsec) applications require high throughput and
flexible security engines. A loosely coupled cryptocoprocessor based on the advanced …

Microprocessor manufacturers typically keep old instruction sets in modern processors to
ensure backward compatibility with legacy software. The introduction of newer extensions to …