Reconfigurable hardware has become a well-accepted option for implementing digital signal processing (DSP). Traditional devices such as field-programmable gate arrays offer good fi...
A virtual instruction set architecture (V-ISA) implemented via a processor-specific software translation layer can provide great flexibility to processor designers. Recent examp...
Vikram S. Adve, Chris Lattner, Michael Brukman, An...
Transactional memory (TM) simplifies parallel programming by guaranteeing that transactions appear to execute atomically and in isolation. Implementing these properties includes p...
Kevin E. Moore, Jayaram Bobba, Michelle J. Moravan...
A minimal, bounded hardware transactional memory implementation significantly improves synchronization performance when used in an operating system kernel. We add HTM to Linux 2.4...
Owen S. Hofmann, Christopher J. Rossbach, Emmett W...
Device drivers typically execute in supervisor mode and thus must be fully trusted. This paper describes how to move them out of the trusted computing base, by running them withou...