Many fault-tolerant and intrusion-tolerant systems require the ability to execute unsafe programs in a realistic environment without leaving permanent damages. Virtual machine tec...
Yang Yu, Fanglu Guo, Susanta Nanda, Lap-Chung Lam,...
Modern embedded microprocessors use low power on-chip memories called scratch-pad memories to store frequently executed instructions and data. Unlike traditional caches, scratch-p...
Rajiv A. Ravindran, Pracheeti D. Nagarkar, Ganesh ...
VLIW architectures are popular in embedded systems because they offer high-performance processing at low cost and energy. The major problem with traditional VLIW designs is that t...
Hongtao Zhong, Kevin Fan, Scott A. Mahlke, Michael...
64-bit address spaces are increasingly important for modern applications, but they come at a price: pointers use twice as much memory, reducing the effective cache capacity and m...
The progressive trend of fabrication technologies towards the nanometer regime has created a number of new physical design challenges for computer architects. Design complexity, u...
Todd M. Austin, Valeria Bertacco, David Blaauw, Tr...