—The impact of shared instruction memory on performance is measured and analyzed for an FPGAbased Multiprocessor System-on-Chip (MP-SoC) with an MPEG-4 video encoding application...
Ari Kulmala, Erno Salminen, Olli Lehtoranta, Timo ...
This paper proposes and evaluates hardware mechanisms for supporting prescient instruction prefetch--an approach to improving single-threaded application performance by using help...
Tor M. Aamodt, Paul Chow, Per Hammarlund, Hong Wan...
Subword parallelism has succeeded in accelerating many multimedia applications. Subword permutation instructions have been proposed to efficiently rearrange subwords in or among r...
Instruction window size is an important design parameter for many modern processors. Large instruction windows offer the potential advantage of exposing large amounts of instructi...
Alvin R. Lebeck, Tong Li, Eric Rotenberg, Jinson K...
A well-known challenge during processor design is to obtain the best possible results for a typical target application domain that is generally described as a set of benchmarks. O...