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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2001
David William Goodwin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dror Maydan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ding-kai Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Darin Stamenov Petkov, Hayward, CA (US);
Steven Weng-kiang Tjiang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Peng Tu, San Ramon, CA (US);
Christopher Rowen, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
David William Goodwin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dror Maydan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ding-Kai Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Darin Stamenov Petkov, Hayward, CA (US);
Steven Weng-Kiang Tjiang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Peng Tu, San Ramon, CA (US);
Christopher Rowen, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Tensilica, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A digital computer system automatically creates an Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that potentially exploits VLIW instructions, vector operations, fused operations, and specialized operations with the goal of increasing the performance of a set of applications while keeping hardware cost below a designer specified limit, or with the goal of minimizing hardware cost given a required level of performance.