Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to manage power in a custom integrated circuit (IC) design by receiving a specification of the custom integrated circuit including computer readable code and generating a profile of the computer readable code to determine instruction usage; automatically generating a processor architecture uniquely customized to the computer readable code, the processor architecture having one or more processing blocks and one or more power domains; determining when each processing block is needed based on the code profile and assigning each block to one of the power domains; and gating the power domains with power based on the code profile; and synthesizing the generated architecture into a computer readable description of the custom integrated circuit for semiconductor fabrication.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to automatically method to manage power in a custom integrated circuit (IC) design with a code profile by receiving an instruction execution sequence based on the code profile and reassigning or delaying the instruction sequence to spread operations or activities over a plurality of processing blocks to reduce hot spots; applying sub-region weight distributions to estimate power hot-spot locations; and synthesizing the generated architecture into a computer readable description of the custom integrated circuit for semiconductor fabrication.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to automatically synthesize a custom integrated circuit by automatically generating an application specific instruction set processor architecture uniquely customized to the computer readable code with a compiler-in-the-loop to compile, assemble and link code for each processor architecture iteration, the processor architecture having one or more processing blocks on the IC executing one or more instructions; and synthesizing the generated architecture into a computer readable description of the custom integrated circuit for semiconductor fabrication.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to automatically synthesize a custom integrated circuit by encoding architecture level knowledge in a data model to generate and pass new constraints for physical synthesis of a chip specification uniquely customized to computer readable code. The system receives a look-ahead cost function during architecture optimization consistent with cost observed later in the flow after detailed physical synthesis is performed. The look-ahead cost function is generated from a prior iteration and supplied to a subsequent iteration through the data model.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to automatically generate a processor architecture for a custom integrated circuit (IC) described by a computer readable code. The IC has one or more timing and hardware constraints. The system extracts parameters defining the processor architecture from a static profile and a dynamic profile of the computer readable code; iteratively optimizes the processor architecture by changing one or more parameters until all timing and hardware constraints expressed as a cost function are met; and synthesizes the generated processor architecture into a computer readable description of the custom integrated circuit for semiconductor fabrication.