It is widely acknowledged that even as VLSI technology advances, there is a looming crisis that is an important obstacle to the widespread deployment of mobile embedded devices, n...
Lakshmi N. Chakrapani, Pinar Korkmaz, Vincent John...
Due to resource and power constraints, embedded processors often cannot afford dedicated floating-point units. For instance, the IBM PowerPC processor embedded in Xilinx Virtex-...
Ray C. C. Cheung, Dong-U Lee, Oskar Mencer, Wayne ...
The conventional classification of inter-instruction dependencies (data, anti and output dependencies) provides a basic scheme for the analysis of pipeline hazards in pipelined in...
2's complement number system imposes a fundamental limitation on the power and performance of arithmetic circuits, due to the fundamental need of cross-datapath carry propaga...
Rooju Chokshi, Krzysztof S. Berezowski, Aviral Shr...
Caches are designed to provide the best tradeoff between access speed and capacity for a set of target applications. Unfortunately, different applications, and even different phas...