With shrinking feature size of silicon fabrication technology, architects are putting more and more logic into a single die. While one might opt to use these transistors for build...
Lin Li, Narayanan Vijaykrishnan, Mahmut T. Kandemi...
Cache misses form a major bottleneck for memory-intensive applications, due to the significant latency of main memory accesses. Loop tiling, in conjunction with other program tran...
— Chip Multiprocessor (CMP) systems have become the reference architecture for designing micro-processors, thanks to the improvements in semiconductor nanotechnology that have co...
Pierfrancesco Foglia, Cosimo Antonio Prete, Marco ...
Comprehensive exploration of the design space parameters at the system-level is a crucial task to evaluate architectural tradeoffs accounting for both energy and performance const...
William Fornaciari, Donatella Sciuto, Cristina Sil...
This paper analyzes a range of architectures for efficient delivery of VLIW instructions for embedded media kernels. The analysis takes an efficient Filter Cache as a baseline and ...
David Black-Schaffer, James D. Balfour, William J....