Physical phenomena such as temperature have an increasingly important role in performance and reliability of modern process technologies. This trend will only strengthen with futu...
Rajarshi Mukherjee, Seda Ogrenci Memik, Gokhan Mem...
The floating-point unit in the Synergistic Processor Element of the 1st generation multi-core CELL Processor is described. The FPU supports 4-way SIMD single precision and intege...
Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is becoming increasingly widespread in portable devices. Due to harsh constraints on power, latency, and throughput in embedded environments, devel...
Sitij Agrawal, William Thies, Saman P. Amarasinghe
The development of robust and efficient synthesis tools is important if asynchronous design is to gain more widespread acceptance. Syntax-directed translation is a powerful synthe...
Luis A. Plana, Doug A. Edwards, Sam Taylor, Luis A...
In recent years, processor manufacturers have converged on two types of register file architectures. Both IBM with its POWER series and Intel with its Pentium series are using a ...