Efficient use of an optimized custom memory hierarchy to exploit temporal locality in the memory accesses on array signals can have a very large impact on the power consumption i...
Tanja Van Achteren, Rudy Lauwereins, Francky Catth...
— We have simulated the implementation of 16-bit floating point instructions on a Pentium4 and PowerPC G4 and G5 to evaluate the performance impact of these instructions in embed...
Lionel Lacassagne, Daniel Etiemble, S. A. Ould Kab...
The market demand for portable multimedia applications has exploded in the recent years. Unfortunately, for such applications current compilers and software optimization methods o...
Armita Peymandoust, Tajana Simunic, Giovanni De Mi...
Multicore architectures have been ruling the recent microprocessor design trend. This is due to different reasons: better performance, thread-level parallelism bounds in modern app...
Matteo Monchiero, Ramon Canal, Antonio Gonzá...
Portable systems demand energy efficiency in order to maximize battery life. IRAM architectures, which combine DRAM and a processor on the same chip in a DRAM process, are more en...
Richard Fromm, Stylianos Perissakis, Neal Cardwell...