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MOBICOM
1996
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Reducing Processor Power Consumption by Improving Processor Time Management in a Single-user Operating System
The CPU is one of the major power consumers in a portable computer, and considerable power can be saved by turning off the CPU when it is not doing useful work. In Apple's Ma...
Jacob R. Lorch, Alan Jay Smith
CAD
2005
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Surface interpolation of meshes by geometric subdivision
Subdivision surfaces are generated by repeated approximation or interpolation from initial control meshes. In this paper, two new nonlinear subdivision schemes, face based subdivi...
Xunnian Yang
MICRO
2008
IEEE
72views Hardware» more  MICRO 2008»
15 years 10 months ago
Low-power, high-performance analog neural branch prediction
Shrinking transistor sizes and a trend toward low-power processors have caused increased leakage, high per-device variation and a larger number of hard and soft errors. Maintainin...
Renée St. Amant, Daniel A. Jiménez, ...
BMCBI
2006
116views more  BMCBI 2006»
15 years 4 months ago
MICA: desktop software for comprehensive searching of DNA databases
Background: Molecular biologists work with DNA databases that often include entire genomes. A common requirement is to search a DNA database to find exact matches for a nondegener...
William A. Stokes, Benjamin S. Glick
DCC
2006
IEEE
16 years 4 months ago
The B-coder: An Improved Binary Arithmetic Coder and Probability Estimator
In this paper we present the B-coder, an efficient binary arithmetic coder that performs extremely well on a wide range of data. The B-coder should be classed as an `approximate&#...
Benjamin Kelly, David F. Brailsford