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ISPASS
2010
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Understanding transactional memory performance
Abstract—Transactional memory promises to generalize transactional programming to mainstream languages and data structures. The purported benefit of transactions is that they ar...
Donald E. Porter, Emmett Witchel
ASPDAC
2004
ACM
129views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 2004»
15 years 11 months ago
Instruction buffering exploration for low energy VLIWs with instruction clusters
— For multimedia applications, loop buffering is an efficient mechanism to reduce the power in the instruction memory of embedded processors. In particular, software controlled ...
Tom Vander Aa, Murali Jayapala, Francisco Barat, G...
CASES
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Balancing memory and performance through selective flushing of software code caches
Dynamic binary translators (DBTs) are becoming increasingly important because of their power and flexibility. However, the high memory demands of DBTs present an obstacle for all ...
Apala Guha, Kim M. Hazelwood, Mary Lou Soffa
MICRO
2009
IEEE
144views Hardware» more  MICRO 2009»
16 years 24 days ago
Characterizing flash memory: anomalies, observations, and applications
Despite flash memory’s promise, it suffers from many idiosyncrasies such as limited durability, data integrity problems, and asymmetry in operation granularity. As architects, ...
Laura M. Grupp, Adrian M. Caulfield, Joel Coburn, ...
DAC
1999
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Memory Exploration for Low Power, Embedded Systems
In embedded system design, the designer has to choose an onchip memory configuration that is suitable for a specific application. To aid in this design choice, we present a memory...
Wen-Tsong Shiue, Chaitali Chakrabarti