A model of programmable processors

Abstract

Designers of electronic systems use more and more programmable processors in their systems. The programmability of processing units is considered as an efficient approach to support the increasing requirement on the functions that the processing units should be able to perform. In the paper, a model of programmable processors is proposed. This model is quite suitable to be implemented as a device between the application specific instruction set processors and general programmable processors. The offered instruction sets are especially optimized for concrete applications.