Modern processors have a small on-chip local memory for instructions. Usually it is in the form of a cache but in some cases it is an addressable memory. In the latter, the user is...
The lack of memory safety in many popular programming languages, including C and C++, has been a cause for great concern in the realm of software reliability, verification, and mo...
Dynamic binary translation (DBT) has been used to achieve numerous goals (e.g., better performance) for general-purpose computers. Recently, DBT has also attracted attention for e...
Byte-code based languages are slowly becoming adopted in embedded domains because of improved security and portability. Another potential reason for their adoption is the reputati...
Shrinking time-to-market and high demand for productivity has driven traditional hardware designers to use design methodologies that start from high-level languages. However, meet...