Current superscalar processors, both RISC and CISC, require substantial instruction fetch and decode bandwidth to keep multiple functional units utilized. While CISC instructions ...
Increasing focus on multimedia applications has prompted the addition of multimedia extensions to most existing general purpose microprocessors. This added functionality comes pri...
—Instruction set simulators (ISS) are vital tools for compiler and processor architecture design space exploration and verification. State-of-the-art simulators using just-in-ti...
The advent of parallel executing Address Calculation Units (ACUs) in Digital Signal Processor (DSP) and Application Specific InstructionSet Processor (ASIP) architectures has made...
Clifford Liem, Pierre G. Paulin, Ahmed Amine Jerra...
Pervasive networks with low-cost embedded 8-bit processors are set to change our day-to-day life. Public-key cryptography provides crucial functionality to assure security which is...