Powerful branch predictors along with a large branch target buffer (BTB) are employed in superscalar processors for instruction-level parallelism exploitation. However, the large ...
—Recently, high-end reconfigurable computing systems that employ Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) as hardware accelerators for general-purpose processors have been built. T...
Multimedia processing on embedded devices requires an architecture that leads to high performance, low power consumption, reduced design complexity, and small code size. In this p...
Abstract—Today’s wirelessly networked embedded systems underlie a vast array of electronic devices, performing computation, communication, and input/output. A major design goal...
Non-uniform utilization of functional units in combination with hardware mechanisms such as clock gating leads to different power consumptions in different parts of a processor ch...