Conventional out-of-order processors that use a unified physical register file allocate and reclaim registers explicitly using a free list that operates as a circular queue. We ...
Steven Battle, Andrew D. Hilton, Mark Hempstead, A...
This paper represents a design study of the datapath for a very long instruction word (VLIW) video signal processor (VSP). VLIW architectures provide high parallelism and excellen...
Andrew Wolfe, Jason Fritts, Santanu Dutta, Edil S....
Complex application-specific media instructions and kernels are emulated with simple to implement extended subword instructions. We show that assuming extended register file ent...
Ben H. H. Juurlink, Asadollah Shahbahrami, Stamati...
The lack of memory safety in many popular programming languages, including C and C++, has been a cause for great concern in the realm of software reliability, verification, and mo...
Many embedded systems contain resource constrained microcontrollers where applications, operating system components and device drivers reside within a single address space with no...
Ram Kumar, Akhilesh Singhania, Andrew Castner, Edd...