For maximum performance, an out-of-order processor must issue load instructions as early as possible, while avoiding memory-order violations with prior store instructions that wri...
A huge application domain, in particular, wireless and handheld devices strongly requires flexible and powerefficient hardware with high performance. This can only be achieved with...
Diandian Zhang, Anupam Chattopadhyay, David Kammle...
The H.264/AVC standard defines an in-loop de- instructions, available in current multimedia SIMD instruction blocking filter which is used in both the encoder and decoder. This set...
Stephen Warrington, Hassan Shojania, Subramania Su...
ScratchPad Memories (SPMs) are commonly used in embedded systems because they are more energy-efficient than caches and enable tighter application control on the memory hierarchy...
Federico Angiolini, Francesco Menichelli, Alberto ...
The number of pipeline stages separating dynamic instruction scheduling from instruction execution has increased considerably in recent out-of-order microprocessor implementations...