Adding a small loop cache to a microprocessor has been shown to reduce average instruction fetch energy for various sets of embedded system applications. With the advent of core-b...
—Localized heating-up creates thermal hotspots across the chip, with the integer register file ranked as the hottest unit in high-performance microprocessors. In this paper, we ...
Shuai Wang, Jie Hu, Sotirios G. Ziavras, Sung Woo ...
Numerical simulations in computational physics, biology, and finance, often require the use of high quality and efficient parallel random number generators. We design and optimi...
David A. Bader, Aparna Chandramowlishwaran, Virat ...
High-end biomedical applications are a good target for specificpurpose system-on-chip (SoC) implementations. Human heart electrocardiogram (ECG) real-time monitoring and analysis ...
Iyad Al Khatib, Davide Bertozzi, Axel Jantsch, Luc...
—This paper presents a design space exploration of a selective load value prediction scheme suitable for energyaware Simultaneous Multi-Threaded (SMT) architectures. A load value...