—The contribution of memory latency to execution time continues to increase, and latency hiding mechanisms become ever more important for efficient processor design. While high-...
In today's wide-issue processors, even small branch-misprediction rates introduce substantial performance penalties. Worse yet, inadequate branch prediction creates a bottlen...
Kevin Skadron, Margaret Martonosi, Douglas W. Clar...
Traditional circuit design focuses on optimizing the static critical paths no matter how infrequently these paths are exercised dynamically. Circuit optimization is then tuned to ...
Abstract. The design of embedded processors demands a careful tradeoff between many conflicting objectives such as performance, silicon area and power consumption. Finding such a t...
— Security is emerging as an important concern in embedded system design. The security of embedded systems is often compromised due to vulnerabilities in “trusted” software t...