— This paper evaluates various instruction- and data-cache organizations in terms of performance, power, energy and area on a suitably selected biomedical benchmark suite. The be...
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...
The widening gap between processor and memory speeds renders data locality optimization a very important issue in data-intensive embedded applications. Throughout the years hardwa...
Gokhan Memik, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Alok N. Choudhar...
—This paper presents a design space exploration of a selective load value prediction scheme suitable for energyaware Simultaneous Multi-Threaded (SMT) architectures. A load value...
Smartphones represent one of the fastest growing markets, providing significant hardware/software improvements every few months. However, supporting these capabilities reduces the...