— Heterogeneous Chip Multiprocessors (HMPs), such as the Cell Broadband Engine, offer a new design optimization opportunity by allowing designers to provide accelerators for appl...
Multimedia applications in general and video processing, such as the MPEG4 Visual stream decoders, in particular are increasingly popular and important workloads for future embedd...
Software pipelining and unfolding are commonly used techniques to increase parallelism for DSP applications. However, these techniques expand the code size of the application sign...
Bin Xiao, Zili Shao, Chantana Chantrapornchai, Edw...
Power consumption is an important design parameter for embedded and portable systems. Software-controlled (or dynamic) power management (DPM) has recently emerged as an attractive...
Vishnu Swaminathan, Krishnendu Chakrabarty, S. Sit...
Portable embedded systems are being driven by consumer demands to be thermally efficient, perform faster, and have longer battery life. To design such a system, various hardware un...