Low-power design of 8-b embedded coolrisc microcontroller cores

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1067-1077

  Piguet, Christian ^b,c,d,e,f   Masgonty, Jean Marc ^b,c   Arm, Claude ^b   Durand, Serge ^a,b   Schneider, Thierry ^b   Rampogna, Flavio ^a,b   Scarnera, Ciro ^a,b   Iseli, Christian ^b   Bardyn, Jean Paul ^b   Pache, R ^b   Dijkstra, Evert ^b  

^a IEEE

^b CSEM   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d Centre Electronique Horloger SA   (Switzerland)

^e CMOS ^*  (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computer architecture; Integrated circuit design; Micropower; Microprocessors; Pipeline processing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REDUCED INSTRUCTION SET COMPUTING;

REDUCED INSTRUCTION SET COMPUTING (RISC) MICROCONTROLLER CORES;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

EID: 0031192292     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.597297     Document Type: Article

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