Low-power architecture for CIL-code hardware processor

Abstract

In the article the authors present the architecture of a hardware CIL processor, which is capable to execute CIL instructions as native code. The CIL hardware engine is implemented on the top of the low-power DSP architecture, and the CIL processor has two execution cores: DSP and CIL. Such solution allows to execute both CIL and DSP instruction sets as native instructions sets and gain performance in common multimedia tasks. Therefore, the DSP-based CIL processor may be targeted for multimedia digital home and even embedded applications. The research was sponsored by RFP 2 Microsoft Corp. grant.