A swap instruction, which exchanges a value in memory with a value of a register, is available on many architectures. The primary application of a swap instruction has been for pro...
Apan Qasem, David B. Whalley, Xin Yuan, Robert van...
Cache behavior modeling is an important part of modern optimizing compilers. In this paper we present a method to estimate the number of cache misses, at compile time, using a mac...
SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) engines are an essential part of the processors in various computing markets, from servers to the embedded domain. Although SIMD-enabled a...
Amir Hormati, Yoonseo Choi, Mark Woh, Manjunath Ku...
As wireless platforms converge to multimedia systems, architectures must converge to support voice, data, and video applications. From a processor architecture perspective, suppor...
C. John Glossner, Mayan Moudgill, Daniel Iancu, Ga...
A static memory reference exhibits a unique property when its dynamic memory addresses are congruent with respect to some non-trivial modulus. Extraction of this congruence inform...
Samuel Larsen, Emmett Witchel, Saman P. Amarasingh...