Soft-error induced reliability problems have become a major challenge in designing new generation microprocessors. Due to the on-chip caches' dominant share in die area and tr...
—With the trend toward high-quality large form factor displays on high-end handhelds, LCD backlight accounts for a significant and increasing percentage of the total energy budg...
New portable consumer embedded devices must execute multimedia applications (e.g., 3D games, video players and signal processing software, etc.) that demand extensive memory acces...
As semiconductor manufacturing technology scales to smaller device sizes, the power consumption of clocked digital ICs begins to increase. Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (D...
Ravishankar Rao, Sarma B. K. Vrudhula, Chaitali Ch...
Dynamic binary translation (DBT) is a powerful technique that enables fine-grained monitoring and manipulation of an existing program binary. At the user level, it has been emplo...