Chip multi-processors (CMP) are rapidly emerging as an important design paradigm for both high performance and embedded processors. These machines provide an important performance...
Alex Settle, Dan Connors, Enric Gibert, Antonio Go...
Many programs exploit shared-memory parallelism using multithreading. Threaded codes typically use locks to coordinate access to shared data. In many cases, contention for locks r...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Allan P...
Security concerns on embedded devices like cellular phones make Java an extremely attractive technology for providing third-party and user-downloadable functionality. However, gar...
Real-time embedded systems are increasingly being networked. In distributed real-time embedded applications, e.g., electric grid management and command and control applications, i...
As the disparity between processor and main memory performance grows, the number of execution cycles spent waiting for memory accesses to complete also increases. As a result, lat...
Teresa L. Johnson, Matthew C. Merten, Wen-mei W. H...