"We benchmarked Target's Chess/Checkers tools and found that the resulting ASIPs have power efficiencies comparable to fixed-function hardware while still offering post-silicon programmability.
Programmability is important because of the required diversity, both in terms of radio standards and system functionality. We expect that, through our collaboration with Target, we can further improve on power efficiencies for ASIP-based design as well as improve the ease of building extremely power-efficient wireless transducer systems."
Bert Gyselinckx
IMEC-NL/Holst Centre
Eindhoven, The Netherlands