Abstract—Silicon debug poses a unique challenge to the engineer because of the limited access to internal signals of the chip. Embedded hardware such as trace buffers helps overc...
Yu-Shen Yang, Brian Keng, Nicola Nicolici, Andreas...
In this paper, we describe a compilation system that automates much of the process of performance tuning that is currently done manually by application programmers interested in h...
Nastaran Baradaran, Jacqueline Chame, Chun Chen, P...
Energy efficiency in microarchitectures has become a necessity. Significant dynamic energy savings can be realized for adaptive storage structures such as caches, issue queues, ...
Steve Dropsho, Alper Buyuktosunoglu, Rajeev Balasu...
Media applications are characterized by large amounts of available parallelism, little data reuse, and a high computation to memory access ratio. While these characteristics are p...
Scott Rixner, William J. Dally, Ujval J. Kapasi, B...
The Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) is a heterogeneous multi-core processor specifically designed to exploit thread-level parallelism. Its memory model comprehends a common shared ...