Kernel-level attacks or rootkits can compromise the security of an operating system by executing with the privilege of the kernel. Current approaches use virtualization to gain hi...
Monirul I. Sharif, Wenke Lee, Weidong Cui, Andrea ...
As microprocessor speeds increase, memory bandwidth is increasing y the performance bottleneck for microprocessors. This has occurred because innovation and technological improvem...
Simultaneous multithreading seeks to improve the aggregate computation bandwidth of a processor core by sharing resources such as functional units, caches, TLB and so on. To date,...
Commercial soft processors are unable to effectively exploit the data parallelism present in many embedded systems workloads, requiring FPGA designers to exploit it (laboriously) ...
Peter Yiannacouras, J. Gregory Steffan, Jonathan R...
Building an optimising compiler is a difficult and time consuming task which must be repeated for each generation of a microprocessor. As the underlying microarchitecture changes...
Christophe Dubach, Timothy M. Jones, Edwin V. Boni...