Despite constant improvements in fabrication technology, hardware components are consuming more power than ever. With the everincreasing demand for higher performance in highly-in...
Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in embedded wireless sensor networks with applications ranging from habitat monitoring to medical applications. Wireless sensor networ...
Mark Hempstead, Nikhil Tripathi, Patrick Mauro, Gu...
Set-associative caches are traditionally managed using hardwarebased lookup and replacement schemes that have high energy overheads. Ideally, the caching strategy should be tailor...
Rajiv A. Ravindran, Michael L. Chu, Scott A. Mahlk...
- A 16-bit THUMB instruction set microprocessor is proposed for low cost/power in short-precision computing. It achieves 40% gate count, 51% power consumption and 160% clock freque...
The size and speed of first-level caches and SRAMs of embedded processors continue to increase in response to demands for higher performance. In power-sensitive devices like PDAs a...