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CSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Application Specific Processors for Multimedia Applications
A well-known challenge during processor design is to obtain best possible results for a typical target application domain by combining flexibility and computational performance. A...
Rashid Muhammad, Ludovic Apvrille, Renaud Pacalet
ARC
2008
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
The Instruction-Set Extension Problem: A Survey
Over the last years, we have witnessed the increased use of Application-Specific Instruction-Set Processors (ASIPs). These ASIPs are processors that have a customizable instruction...
Carlo Galuzzi, Koen Bertels
ISCA
2005
IEEE
134views Hardware» more  ISCA 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
An Architecture Framework for Transparent Instruction Set Customization in Embedded Processors
Instruction set customization is an effective way to improve processor performance. Critical portions of application dataflow graphs are collapsed for accelerated execution on s...
Nathan Clark, Jason A. Blome, Michael L. Chu, Scot...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Way Stealing:cache-assisted automatic instruction set extensions
This paper introduces Way Stealing, a simple architectural modification to a cache-based processor to increase data bandwidth to and from application-specific Instruction Set Exte...
Theo Kluter, Philip Brisk, Paolo Ienne, Edoardo Ch...
CASES
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
A low power front-end for embedded processors using a block-aware instruction set
Energy, power, and area efficiency are critical design concerns for embedded processors. Much of the energy of a typical embedded processor is consumed in the front-end since inst...
Ahmad Zmily, Christos Kozyrakis