—The contribution of memory latency to execution time continues to increase, and latency hiding mechanisms become ever more important for efficient processor design. While high-...
Many commercially available embedded processors are capable of extending their base instruction set for a specific domain of applications. While steady progress has been made in t...
Reconfigurable computing is one of the most recent research topics in computer science. The Altera™ Nios II soft-core processor can be included in a large set of reconfigurable ...
Willian dos Santos Lima, Renata Spolon Lobato, Ale...
Several multithreading techniques have been proposed to reduce resource underutilization in Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processors. Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT) is a po...
In SMT processors, the complex interplay between private and shared datapath resources needs to be considered in order to realize the full performance potential. In this paper, we...