1. Introduction -- 2. Focus and Related Work -- 3. Efficient Low-Power Hardware Design -- 4. Application-Specific Processor Architectures -- 5. The ASIP Design Flow -- 6. The ASIP Design Environment -- 7. Case Studies -- 8. Summary -- A. ASIP Development Using LISA 2.0 -- B. Computational Kernels -- C. ICORE Instruction Set Architecture -- D. Different ICORE Pipeline Organizations -- E. ICORE HDL Description Templates -- F. Area, Power and Design Time for ICORE