The ever-increasing importance of main memory latency and bandwidth is pushing CMPs towards caches with higher capacity and associativity. Associativity is typically improved by in...
New applications and standards are first conceived only for functional correctness and without concerns for the target architecture. The next challenge is to map them onto an arch...
VIRAM (Vector Intelligent Random Access Memory) is a vector architecture processor with embedded memory, designed for portable multimedia processing devices. Its vector processing...
Thinh P. Q. Nguyen, Avideh Zakhor, Katherine A. Ye...
—The IEEE 802.15.4a amendment has introduced ultra-wideband impulse radio (UWB IR) as a promising physical layer for energy-efficient, low data rate communications. A critical p...
Christian Bachmann, Andreas Genser, Jos Hulzink, M...
— Piezoelectric actuators can achieve high efficiency and power density in very small geometries, which shows promise for microrobotic applications, such as flapping-wing robot...