In the pursuit of instruction-level parallelism, significant demands are placed on a processor's instruction delivery mechanism. Delivering the performance necessary to meet ...
—The contribution of memory latency to execution time continues to increase, and latency hiding mechanisms become ever more important for efficient processor design. While high-...
Several multithreading techniques have been proposed to reduce resource underutilization in Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processors. Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT) is a po...
A programmable parallel digital signal processor (DSP) core for embedded applications is presented which combines the concepts of single instruction stream over multiple data stre...
Liang Han, Jie Chen, Chaoxian Zhou, Ying Li, Xin Z...
The power consumption of microprocessors is becoming increasingly important in design decisions, not only in mobile processors, but also now in high-performance processors. Power-...