Abstract. Given the increasing gap between processors and memory, prefetching data into cache becomes an important strategy for preventing the processor from being starved of data....
Multimedia devices demands a platform integrated various functional modules and an increasing support of multiple standards. Stream architecture is able to solve the problem. Howev...
In order to enhance the performance of a computer, most modern processors use superscalar architecture and raise the clock frequency. Superscalar architecture can execute more than...
Abstract. Power-balanced instruction scheduling for Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processors is an optimization problem which requires a good instruction-level power model for ...
Shu Xiao, Edmund Ming-Kit Lai, A. Benjamin Premkum...
Continuing advances in semiconductor technology and demand for higher performance will lead to more powerful, superpipelined and wider issue processors. Instruction caches in such ...