This paper evaluates the use of pin and cycle accurate SystemC models for embedded system design exploration and early software development. The target system is MicroBlaze Vanill...
Profilers play an important role in software/hardware design, optimization, and verification. Various approaches have been proposed to implement profilers. The most widespread app...
Lei Gao, Jia Huang, Jianjiang Ceng, Rainer Leupers...
Several forms of processor memory organizations have been in use to optimally access off-chip memory systems mainly the Hard disk drives (HDD). Recent trends show that the solid s...
An analytical performance model for out of order issue superscalar micro-processors is presented. This model quantifies the performance impacts of micro-architecture design option...
Accurate instruction fetch and branch prediction is increasingly important on today’s wide-issue architectures. Fetch prediction is the process of determining the next instructi...