While technology trends have ushered in the age of chip multiprocessors (CMP) and enabled designers to place an increasing number of cores on chip, a fundamental question is what ...
Divya Gulati, Changkyu Kim, Simha Sethumadhavan, S...
Hardware designers are increasingly turning to Single Chip Multi-Processors to achieve power and throughput goals. To further increase performance for a specific application the c...
Stephen D. Craven, Cameron Patterson, Peter M. Ath...
Although x86 processors have been around for a long time and are the most ubiquitous processors in the world, the amount of academic research regarding details of their performanc...
The Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) of a programmable processor is the native languageof the machine. It defines the set of operations and resourcesthat are optimized for that ...
This paper describes the architecture and implementation of a high-speed decompression engine for embedded processors. The engine is targeted to processors where embedded programs...