Abstract-The design of application-specific instruction set processor (ASIP) system includes at least three interdependent tasks: microarchitecture design, instruction set design, and instruction set mapping for the application. We present a method that unifies these three design problems with a single formulation: a modified scheduling/allocation problem with an integrated instruction formation process. Micro-operations (MOPs) representing the application are scheduled into time steps. Instructions are formed and hardware resources are allocated during the scheduling process. The assembly code for the given application is obtained automatically at the end of the scheduling process. This approach considers MOP parallelism, instruction field encoding, delay load/store/ branch, conditional execution of MOPs and the retargetability to various architecture templates. Experiments are presented to show the power and limitation of our approach. Performance improvement over our previous work [4] is significant.
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