Processor customization for wearable bio-monitoring platforms

Abstract

Wearable bio-monitoring applications require significant computation bandwidth. Processor customization is a major technology trend that can potentially satisfy computation requirement. In this paper, we apply processor customization to wearable bio-monitoring platforms and create systems with high performance. We choose Stretch customizable processor as the hardware platform where application-specific extension instructions are implemented in reconfigurable logic. Experimental results demonstrate that processor customization can return a performance gain of up to 5.2X. © 2008 IEEE.