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IJCSA
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Altivec Vector Unit Customization for Embedded Systems
Vector extensions for general purpose processors are an efficient feature to address the growing performance demand of multimedia and computer vision applications. Embedded proces...
Tarik Saidani, Joel Falcou, Lionel Lacassagne, Sam...
CODES
2005
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
An efficient direct mapped instruction cache for application-specific embedded systems
Caches may consume half of a microprocessor’s total power and cache misses incur accessing off-chip memory, which is both time consuming and energy costly. Therefore, minimizing...
Chuanjun Zhang
HIPEAC
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Fetch Gating Control Through Speculative Instruction Window Weighting
In a dynamic reordering superscalar processor, the front-end fetches instructions and places them in the issue queue. Instructions are then issued by the back-end execution core. T...
Hans Vandierendonck, André Seznec
DATE
2007
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Instruction-set customization for real-time embedded systems
Application-specific customization of the instruction set helps embedded processors achieve significant performance and power efficiency. In this paper, we explore customizatio...
Huynh Phung Huynh, Tulika Mitra
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 days ago
Dynamically Exploiting Narrow Width Operands to Improve Processor Power and Performance
In general-purpose microprocessors, recent trends have pushed towards 64-bit word widths, primarily to accommodate the large addressing needs of some programs. Many integer proble...
David Brooks, Margaret Martonosi