In profiling, a tradeoff exists between information and overhead. For example, hardware-sampling profilers incur negligible overhead, but the information they collect is consequen...
Tipp Moseley, Alex Shye, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Dirk ...
The Architectural Vulnerability Factor (AVF) of a hardware structure is the probability that a fault in the structure will affect the output of a program. AVF captures both microa...
Instruction set customization is an effective way to improve processor performance. Critical portions of application dataflow graphs are collapsed for accelerated execution on s...
Nathan Clark, Jason A. Blome, Michael L. Chu, Scot...
Detecting and predicting a program’s execution phases are crucial to dynamic optimizations and dynamically adaptable systems. This paper shows that a phase can be associated with...
Jinpyo Kim, Sreekumar V. Kodakara, Wei-Chung Hsu, ...
Guarded evaluation is a power reduction technique that involves identifying sub-circuits (within a larger circuit) whose inputs can be held constant (guarded) at specific times d...