In this paper, we examine the trade-offs in performance and area due to customizing the datapath and instruction set architecture of a soft VLIW processor implemented in a high-den...
Mazen A. R. Saghir, Mohamad El-Majzoub, Patrick Ak...
This paper presents a new multiprocessor platform for high throughput turbo decoding. The proposed platform is based on a new configurable ASIP combined with an efficient memory a...
– An instruction set level reference model was developed for the development of synergistic processing unit (SPU) , which is one of the key components of the cell processor [1][2...
Yukio Watanabe, Balazs Sallay, Brad W. Michael, Da...
This paper proposes and evaluates hardware mechanisms for supporting prescient instruction prefetch--an approach to improving single-threaded application performance by using help...
Tor M. Aamodt, Paul Chow, Per Hammarlund, Hong Wan...
Abstract. This paper considers the automatic generation of architectural tests (ATGP), a fundamental problem in processor validation. ATGPs are complex conditional constraint satis...
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Carleton Coffrin, Boris Gut...