Software prefetching has been demonstrated as a powerful technique to tolerate long load latencies. However, to be effective, prefetching must target the most critical (frequently...
— For multimedia applications, loop buffering is an efficient mechanism to reduce the power in the instruction memory of embedded processors. In particular, software controlled ...
Tom Vander Aa, Murali Jayapala, Francisco Barat, G...
I have been designing and building applications, including the databases used by those applications, for several decades now. I have seen similar problems approached by different d...
Abstract—Parameter variations have become a dominant challenge in microprocessor design. Voltage variation is especially daunting because it happens so rapidly. We measure and ch...
Vijay Janapa Reddi, Svilen Kanev, Wonyoung Kim, Si...
Recognizing commonly used data structures and algorithms is a key activity in reverse engineering. Systems developed to automate this recognition process have been isolated, stand...