In response to current technology scaling trends, architects are developing a new style of processor, known as spatial computers. A spatial computer is composed of hundreds or eve...
Martha Mercaldi, Steven Swanson, Andrew Petersen, ...
Growing on-chip wire delays are motivating architectural features that expose on-chip communication to the compiler. EDGE architectures are one example of communication-exposed mi...
Katherine E. Coons, Xia Chen, Doug Burger, Kathryn...
Communication overheads are one of the fundamental challenges in a multiprocessor system. As the number of processors on a chip increases, communication overheads and the distribu...
Katherine E. Coons, Behnam Robatmili, Matthew E. T...
As semiconductor feature sizes decrease, interconnect delay is becoming a dominant component of processor cycle times. This creates a critical need to shift microarchitectural des...
— Next generation multimedia mobile phones that use the high bandwidth 3G cellular radio network consume more power. Multimedia algorithms such as speech, video transcodecs have ...