This book introduces a novel design methodology which can significantly reduce the ASIP development effort through high degrees of design automation. It includes several design case studies with real life embedded applications.1. Introduction.- 2. The ASIP Design Space.- 3.Design Automation Tools for ASIP Design.- 4. Profiling for ASIP Design.- 5. Profiler: Design and Implementation.- 6. A Primer on ISA Customization.- 7. ISA Customization Design Flow.- 8. ISE Generation Algorithms.- 9. Increasing Data Bandwidth to ISEs through Register Clustering.- 10. Case Studies.- 11. Summary:Taking Stock of Application Analysis.- A. Post ISE Generation DFG Transformation Algorithms.- References.- Index.