Reduced energy consumption is one of the most important design goals for embedded application domains like wireless, multimedia and biomedical. Instruction memory hierarchy has be...
Praveen Raghavan, Andy Lambrechts, Murali Jayapala...
For mobile embedded systems, the energy consumption is a limiting factor because of today’s battery capacities. Besides the processor, memory accesses consume a high amount of en...
Caches play an important role in embedded systems by bridging the performance gap between high speed processors and slow memory. At the same time, caches introduce imprecision in ...
Code compression has been applied to embedded systems to minimize the silicon area utilized for program memories, and lower the power consumption. More recently, it has become a n...
Nazish Aslam, Mark Milward, Ioannis Nousias, Tughr...
While hardware instruction caches are present in virtually all general-purpose and high-performance microprocessors today, many embedded processors use SRAM or scratchpad memories...