Scratchpads have been widely proposed as an alternative to caches for embedded systems. Advantages of scratchpads include reduced energy consumption in comparison to a cache and a...
In the pursuit of instruction-level parallelism, significant demands are placed on a processor's instruction delivery mechanism. Delivering the performance necessary to meet ...
Single-event upsets from particle strikes have become a key challenge in microprocessor design. Techniques to deal with these transient faults exist, but come at a cost. Designers...
Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Christopher T. Weaver, Joe...
This paper presents a hardware-based dynamic optimizer that continuously optimizes an application’s instruction stream. In continuous optimization, dataflow optimizations are p...
Brian Fahs, Todd M. Rafacz, Sanjay J. Patel, Steve...
We present a new scheme for dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVS) for processing multimedia streams on architectures with restricted buffer sizes. The main advantage of our ...
Alexander Maxiaguine, Samarjit Chakraborty, Lothar...