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Chapter 1: An Introduction to Embedde d Processing
1.1 What is Embedded Computing?
1 .2 Distinguishing Between Embedded and General Purpose Computing
1.3 Characterizing Embedded Computing
1.4 Embedded market structure
1.5 Further Reading
1.6 E xercises

Chapter 2: An Overview of VLIW and ILP
2.1 Semantics and parallelism
2.2 Design philosophies
2.3 Role of the compiler
2.4 VLIW in the embedded and DSP domains
2.5 Historical Persp ective and Further Reading
2.6 Exercises

Chapter 3: An Overview of ISA Design
3.1 Overvie w: What to Hide
3.2 Basic VLIW design principles
3.3 Designing a VLIW ISA for Embedded Systems
3.4 I nstruction-Set Encoding
3.5 VLIW Encoding
3.6 Encoding and Instruction-Set Extensions
3.7 Further Re ading
3.8 Exercises

Chapter 4: