— For multimedia applications, loop buffering is an efficient mechanism to reduce the power in the instruction memory of embedded processors. In particular, software controlled ...
Tom Vander Aa, Murali Jayapala, Francisco Barat, G...
Recent and future parallel clusters and supercomputers use SMPs and multi-core processors as basic nodes, providing a huge amount of parallel resources. These systems often have h...
Computer architects utilize simulation tools to evaluate the merits of a new design feature. The time needed to adequately evaluate the tradeoffs associated with adding any new fe...
Kaushal Sanghai, Ting Su, Jennifer G. Dy, David R....
To meet the high demand for powerful embedded processors, VLIW architectures are increasingly complex (e.g., multiple clusters), and moreover, they now run increasingly sophistica...
Today's high-end massively parallel processing (MPP) machines have thousands to tens of thousands of processors, with next-generation systems planned to have in excess of one...
Ron Oldfield, Lee Ward, Rolf Riesen, Arthur B. Mac...