Lee W. VLIW Microprocessor Hardware Design 2008

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Microcontrollers and microprocessors are used in everyday systems. Basically, any electronic systems that require computation or instruction execution require a microcontroller or microprocessor. Microcontrollers are basically microprocessors coupled with surrounding periphery logic that perform a certain functionality. Therefore, at the core of electronic systems with computational capability (for example, a POS system, an ATM machine, handheld devices, control systems and others) is a microprocessor. Microprocessors have grown from 8 bits to 16 bits, 32 bits, and currently to 64 bits. Microprocessor architecture has also grown from complex instruction set computing (CISC) based to reduced instruction set computing (RISC) based on a combination of RISC-CISC based and currently very long instruction word (VLIW) based. This book discusses the hardware design and implementation of a 64-bit VLIW microprocessor capable of operating three operations per VLIW instruction word on ASIC and FPGA technology