Embedded systems require control of many concurrent real-time activities, leading to system designs which feature multiple hardware peripherals with each providing a specific, ded...
— Program code size has become a critical design constraint of embedded systems. Large program codes require large memories, which increase the size and cost of the chip. Poor co...
Jari Heikkinen, Andrea G. M. Cilio, Jarmo Takala, ...
The instruction cache is a popular target for optimizations of microprocessor-based systems because of the cache’s high impact on system performance and power, and because of th...
Performance of applications can be boosted by executing application-specific Instruction Set Extensions (ISEs) on a specialized hardware coupled with a processor core. Many commer...
Partha Biswas, Sudarshan Banerjee, Nikil D. Dutt, ...
Embedded control systems with hard real-time constraints require that deadlines are met at all times or the system may malfunction with potentially catastrophic consequences. Sched...