Although SRAM programmed Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA's) have come to dominate the industry due to their density and performance advantages over non-volatile technolog...
The Complex Streamed Instruction (CSI) set is an instruction set extension targeted at multimedia applications. CSI instructions process two-dimensional data streams stored in mem...
Dmitry Cheresiz, Ben H. H. Juurlink, Stamatis Vass...
—The most pervasive compute operation carried out in almost all bioinformatics applications is pairwise sequence homology detection (or sequence alignment). Due to exponentially ...
The optimistic nature of Transactional Memory (TM) systems can lead to the concurrent execution of transactions that are later found to conflict. Conflicts degrade scalability, a...
In the last years high performance processor designs have evolved toward Chip-Multiprocessor (CMP) architectures that implement multiple processing cores on a single die. As the nu...