Due to resource and power constraints, embedded processors often cannot afford dedicated floating-point units. For instance, the IBM PowerPC processor embedded in Xilinx Virtex-...
Ray C. C. Cheung, Dong-U Lee, Oskar Mencer, Wayne ...
Granularity control is an effective means for trading power consumption with performance on dense shared memory multiprocessors, such as multi-SMT and multi-CMP systems. In this p...
Matthew Curtis-Maury, James Dzierwa, Christos D. A...
This paper presents the design and the performance evaluation of a coarse-grain dynamically reconfigurable platform for network applications. The platform consists of two MicroBla...
Even after carefully tuning the memory characteristics to the application properties and the processor speed, during the execution of real applications there are times when the pr...
Aviral Shrivastava, Eugene Earlie, Nikil D. Dutt, ...
Garbage collection considerably increases programmer productivity and software quality. However, it is difficult to implement garbage collection both efficiently and suitably fo...