During the development of computer peripherals which interface to the processor via the system bus it is often necessary to acquire the signals on the bus at the hardware level. I...
H. A. Xie, Kevin E. Forward, K. M. Adams, D. Leask
The need to reduce the power consumption of the next generation of digital systems is clearly recognized. At the system level, power management is a very powerful technique and de...
Correctly predicting the direction that branches will take is increasingly important in today’s wide-issue computer architectures. The name program-based branch prediction is gi...
Brad Calder, Dirk Grunwald, Donald C. Lindsay, Jam...
Dynamic dispatching is a major source of run-time overhead in object-oriented languages, due both to the direct cost of method lookup and to the indirect effect of preventing othe...
d Abstract) We extend the model of [VRV94] to express strong time-outs (and pre-emption): if an event A does not happen through time t, cause event B to happen at time t. Such con...